Eurobarometer 42 (Nov-Dec 1994)

Attitude to European unification, the European Parliament and further
development of the Union. Topics: General contentment with life;
postmaterialism; expected development of personal situation, one´s own
financial situation and the job situation in the coming year; expected
general economic development of the country; frequency of obtaining
news from television, radio and daily newspapers; national pride and
reasons for national pride (split: exchange of the sequence of general
determination and naming of reasons); attitude to pride in the nation;
self-classification of political orientation. Europe: general interest
in politics and special interest in European politics; satisfaction
with democracy at municipal, national and European level; European
citizenship; self-classification of general extent to which informed
about the European Union; approval of European unification; 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; desired national or European responsibility for political
departments and for selected political measures; desire for increased
information about the European Union; perceived information about the
European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Ministers,
the European Court of Justice, the Common Market and the Maastricht
Treaty (split: in the last three months versus recently); personal
hopes in the Common Market; hopes in the Common Market regarding the
job market, trade, competition, the economic situation and social
policies; reasons and type of concerns regarding the Common Market;
approval of future membership in the EU for Austria, Finland, Sweden,
Norway, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic,
Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia; familiarity of those countries who
conducted a referendum regarding joining the EU; familiarity of the
positive or negative result of these referendums. Future European
politics: judgement on selected ideas about the future development of
the EU; approval of individual parts of the Maastricht Treaty such as
central currency bank, common currency, defense and foreign policy;
knowledge about the correct date of the last European election;
personal election participation; behavior at the polls; knowledge about
increased power of the European Parliament since the Maastricht Treaty;
approval of this increased power of the parliament; knowledge about
termination of the mandate of the European Commission; knowledge of the
name of the new president of the European Commission; judgement on the
job of the previous president Jaques Delores; knowledge about the names
of the commissars in the EU commission coming from the country of
respondent; EU countries to which one feels a special closeness, which
one can trust politically, which are committed to the European idea,
which work economically efficiently, conduct business reliably and
conduct intensive European policies; knowledge of the ECHO logo
(European Community Humanitarian Office); knowledge of the
organizations: ECHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, USAID and WFT; knowledge about
humanitarian aid of the EU altogether as well as especially for Ruanda
as well as for former Yugoslavia; judgement on the information policies
of ECHO; attitude to increase or reduction of humanitarian aid of the
EU; comparison of the extent of humanitarian aid of the USA, the EU and
Japan; preference for humanitarian aid of the EU, the individual
countries, the UN or relief organizations independent of countries;
judgement on manner of provision of humanitarian resources by the EU.
European Parliament: significance of the European Parliament; adequate
control over the power of the European Commission, the Council of
Ministers and the Administration by the European Parliament; judgement
on the reliability of decisions of the EU Commission, the national
government, the European Parliament, the national parliament and the
Council of Ministers in the interest of the citizens; perceived
representation of interests through the European Parliament; political
areas to which the European Parliament should pay particular attention.
Foreigner questions: assessment of the proportion of foreigners in the
country; perceived disturbances through people of other nationality,
another race or other religion. Family: attitude to the role of women
or men in the household. Nutrition and risk of cancer: assumed
influence of selected foods on the risk of cancer. The significance of
God in one´s own life (scale). Demography: possession of durable
consumer goods; self-classification on a left-right continuum; party
preference; age at conclusion of school training; religiousness. In
Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, Portugal and in the
United Kingdom the image of Italy was additionally surveyed: intensity
of observing Italian politics; judgement on the political as well as
the economic situation of Italy on scales. The following questions were
posed in France: degree of familiarity of brands of soft drinks;
consumption at home and away from home, brands consumed and frequency
of consumption of soft drinks; conduct when the preferred brand of soft
drink is not available in the selection of the restaurant as well as
store; assessment of the difference of soft drink beverages from other
refreshments; most important reason for consumption of soft drinks;
assessment of the different taste of the individual brands of soft
drinks. The following questions were posed in Norway: general judgement
on the EES treaty; personal agreement or rejection in the EU
referendum; conduct given a new referendum; significance of Norway´s
joining the EU for the areas of environment, jobs, health, security
policy, drug policy, structure policy, economy, culture and regarding
political influence; expected future EU membership of the country. Also
encoded was: time of interview; length of interview; number of persons
present during the interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate;
city size; possession of a telephone.