Flash Eurobarometer 450 (Future of Europe – Views from Outside the EU)

External views on the EU.

Topics: main assets and main challenges of the EU; preferred issues to be emphasized by society in order to face global challenges; assessment of the EU’s current influence compared to: the USA, Japan, China, India, Brazil, and Russia; embodiment of selected values by the EU compared to other countries: social equality and solidarity, peace, progress and innovation, freedom of opinion, tolerance and openness, respect for history; EU image; attitude towards selected statements: EU is a place of stability in a troubled world, free-market economy should go with a high level of social protection, globalisation threatens national identity, recognition of people’s interests by national political system, everyone in the own country has a chance to succeed in life.

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

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; weighting factor.