European Election 1989

Political attitudes before the European Election.

Topics: most important problems of the country; intent to participate
in the election as well as party preference in the impending and last
European Election; interest in the European Election and
self-assessment of extent to which informed about the election;
satisfaction with the Federal Government and the individual opposition
parties (scale); sympathy scale for leading politicians; order of
preferred parties; attitude to further merger of Western Europe and to
the European Parliament; advantageousness of membership of the Federal
Republic in the EC; assessment of the significance of political
decisions at the municipal, state, federal as well as European level;
satisfaction with the job of the European Parliament; progress in
European unification since the last European Election; advantageousness
of the common domestic market in 1992 for the Federal Republic;
increase in difficulty of combating crime due to the elimination of
border checks within the framework of the domestic market; preference
for national or European responsibility in the fight against
unemployment and crime as well as in problems of environmental
protection and agriculture; attitude to reunification of the two German
nations; attitude to admission of Eastern European nations into the EC;
assumed winner in the impending European Election; job security;
left-right orientation; completed journeymen´s test or completed
government examination or diploma; living together with a partner;
civil service career as well as service rank for soldiers; union
membership; religiousness; party inclination.