Flash Eurobarometer 151b (Globalisation)

Attitudes towards globalisation.<br>Topics: awareness of the term ´globalisation´; attitude towards the development of globalisation; suitability of the own country’s economic structure with regard to globalisation; assessment of the EU as: too protectionist, too liberal, neither; assessment of existing regulation mechanisms to monitor the development of globalisation as sufficient; globalisation as an opportunity for national companies to profit from the opening of markets versus threat of national jobs and companies; attitude towards the effect of globalisation on: economic growth in the own country, cultural exchanges between countries, solidarity between countries, scientific and technical progress, democracy at a world-wide level, quality of public services, disparities between Northern and Southern countries, employment in the own country, environment, health; expected impact of globalisation on own family; benefit for each of the following actors from globalisation: consumers, financial markets, EU, United States, China, Japan, multinationals, small and medium sized companies, developing countries, farmers; assessment of the influence of selected actors on the process of globalisation as appropriate: political parties, trade unions, multinationals, financial circles, national governments, international institutions, consumer associations, anti-globalist movements, European Union, own country, United States; trust in the aforementioned institutions with regard to steering globalisation; assessment of the possibility to effectively control the process of globalisation; attitude towards the negotiations of the European Commission on behalf of the member states with selected countries on international trade: gives EU more bargaining power, ignores interests of own country; attitude towards demonstrations of anti-globalist movements during international summits: raise points that deserve to be debated, succeed in influencing national political decision makers, manage to slow down process of globalisation, raise awareness of certain aspects of globalisation, propose concrete solutions to globalisation.

Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; region; type of community.

Also encoded was: respondent ID; country; weighting factor.