Eurobarometer 43.1bis (May-Jun 1995)

Attitude to the European market, environmental protection, the region
and agriculture in the EU. Topics:

1. Attitude to the European market: interest in politics; personal
opinion leadership; attitude to European unification and membership of
one´s own country in the EU; expected political and economic advantages
of a common European market (scale); purchase of products or services
from another European country and assignment of the purchaser to a
certain area of business; direct purchase of products in other European
countries; satisfaction with these products; difficulties and negative
experiences in these purchases; trust in purchases from other European
countries relative to area of business; most important obstacles in
purchase of products from other EU member countries; perceived measures
of the EU to increase consumer protection.

2. Environmental protection: current significance of environmental
protection; concern about environmental problems in the EU in general
as well as in one´s country; most important environmental problems in
the immediate vicinity; most important sources of environmental
pollution; preferred measures to reduce vehicle traffic in cities
(scale); ecology versus economy; preferred financing for elimination of
environmental pollution; personal participation in environmental
protection (scale); assessment of the efficiency of environmental
protection on the different governmental levels from local to
world-wide; preferred environmental policy measures on the part of the
government; assessment of the environmental policy trustworthiness of
selected organizations, occupational groups as well as the media;
attitude to an environmental tax; approval of an immediate or gradual
introduction of the environmental tax; desire for consideration of
economic growth in introduction of environmental taxes; preference for
reducd environmental tax for environmentally friendly packaging;
approval of tax policy measures against environment polluters; general
judgement on the effects of human activities on the environment.

3. Questions on the region: local ties or attachment with the region;
attachment with the nation or European citizenship; judgement on
measures of the government to support weaker regions; attitude to
support of weaker regions; knowledge about the EU policy to support
weaker regions; preferred measures to support weaker regions by the EU;
sources of information about the development fund of the EU; attitude
to an increased influence of the region on the policies of EU; desire
for more influence by the regional commitee; most important source of
information of respondent about the EU, its policies and institutions;
preferred treatment of the Eastern European countries in comparison to
the weak regions.

4. Agriculture: most important task of agriculture; significance of
agriculture for society; assessment of cost effectiveness for foods in
general; willingness to pay higher prices for foods from traditional
breeding farms; assessment of the actions of farmers as appropriate for
the environment; judgement on the job of the EU Commission for
agriculture; knowledge about the common agricultural policy (CAP);
preferred political measures through the CAP.

5. Miscellaneous: self-classification on a left-right continuum.

Also encoded was: date of interview; time of start of interview; length of
interview; presence of further persons during the interview;
willingness of respondent to cooperate; telephone in household.

In Denmark the following additional question was posed: knowledge about
the magazine ´Europe´.