Eurobarometer 43.1 (Apr-May 1995)

1. Attitude to European unification, the European Parliament and
further development of the Union. 2. Radioactivity and cancer.

Topics:
1. Attitude to European unification, the European Parliament and
further development of the Union: eligibility to vote at place of
residence; contentment with life; satisfaction with democracy at
municipal level, state level and the level of the European Union;
personal opinion leadership and interest in politics; postmaterialism;
frequency of obtaining news on television, radio and in daily
newspapers; attitude to efforts to unify Europe (split: Western
Europe); attitude to membership of the country in the EU and
advantageousness of membership for one´s own country; regret of a
failure of the EU; judgement on the speed of unification of the EU and
desired progress of this unification; perceived information about the
European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Ministers,
the European Court of Justice, the Common Market, the Maastricht
Treaty, the planned conference on checking the Maastricht Treaty, the
discussion about new members of the community, the Schengen Treaty and
the topic ´Europe of two speeds´ (split: in the last three months vs.
recently); self-assessment of extent to which informed and information
need about the European Union; most important sources of information
about the EU; knowledge about the individual member countries of the
EU; expected effects of the new entries by Austria, Finland and Sweden
on the respondent, the country, the EU, unemployment, world-wide
competitive ability and equal rights for men and women; classification
of the member countries according to the criterion of the ´two speeds´;
attitude to a ´Europe of two speeds´; governments most supportive as
well as least supportive of common actions in the EU; attitude to
increased integration of the EU; European citizenship; ideas about
Europe in the year 2010 (scale); approval of a European Government;
preferred national or European responsibility for the political
departments and selected political measures; most important political
areas for actions of the European Parliament; political areas where the
respondent has the greatest need for information; preferred information
media; ways of looking for information on European topics; maximum
acceptable costs for obtaining information about European topics; hopes
or fears regarding the Common Market and the European Union; approval
of a common currency, an EU Central Bank, a common foreign policy, a
common security policy, the position of the EU President and the
European Commission regarding the parliament, an increased role of the
European Parliament, an active and passive right to vote in municipal
elections of European citizens at their respective place of residence,
to subsidiarity of political decisions at local, regional, national or
European level, to instructing schoolchildren about the work of the
institutions of the EU and to support of film and television
productions in Europe in order to create a counterbalance to American
and Japanese productions; perceived representation of interests of the
people through institutions such as the European Commission, national
government, the European Parliament, the national parliament and the
Council of Ministers; significance of the European Parliament for the
EU and actual and desired significance; political areas recommended for
particular attention of the European Parliament; knowledge about the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the GATT, the World
Trade Organization (WTO) as well as the economic negotiations between
the EU and the United States in the Uruguay Round; assessment of the
efficiency of the European Union as representative of the interests in
trade; preference for free trade for all products or desire for
protection for cultural products such as film and television programs.

2. Radioactivity and cancer: self-classification of extent to which
informed about radioactivity and preferred sources of information; most
important criteria for satisfactory information about radioactivity;
classification of environmental groups, doctors, independent
scientists, university instructors and government authorities as
reliable providers of information about radioactivity; most important
criteria for meaningful information about radioactivity; most important
sources of radioactive radiation; assumptions about the risk of cancer
in the vicinity of nuclear power plants; assessment of the
environmental pollution from storage of nuclear wastes on the bottom of
the ocean; comparison of the significance of radioactive and chemical
environmental pollution in the country; possibility of an accident
comparable to the one in Chernobyl in one´s own country; demand for
continual information for a neighboring country in case of nuclear
power plants in the vicinity the border of a country; possession of
electronic entertainment media and selected durable economic goods;
possession of a telephone.

The following question was also posed in France: extent to which
informed about the French presidency in the Council of Ministers and
significance of this presidency.

Also encoded was: date of interview; time of start of interview; length of
interview; number of persons present during interview; willingness of
respondent to cooperate.