2188|JULY 1995 BAROMETER: EUROPEAN UNION

— Feelings towards certain blocs of countries. — Feelings (in the context of the interviewee) towards the European Union. — Degree of agreement with the efforts being made to unify Western Europe. — Importance and possibility for the European Union to achieve the following objectives: free movement of workers, peace, the single currency and the creation of the United States of Europe. — Opinion on the creation of a government of its own for the European Union. — Attitudes of a possible dissolution of the European Union. — European sentiment: today and in the future. — Assessment of Spain’s accession to the European Community, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary. — Assessment of the effects that Spain’s membership of the European Union is having on: the modernisation of Spanish society, the functioning of democracy, Spain’s role in the world, the economy, wages, prices, infrastructure, the introduction of new technologies, culture, agriculture, industry, fisheries, livestock, tourism and trade. — Assessment, as a whole, of Spain’s membership of the European Union. — Assessment of the assumption that Spain did not belong to the European Union. — Opinion on whether the policy of the European Union contributes to reducing the existing inequalities between its member countries. — Degrees of differences between Spain and the most developed countries of the European Union. — Changes produced, in the previous differences, since Spain belongs to the European Union. — Opinion of the balance between what Spain contributes to the budgets of the European Union and what it receives from them. — Degree of influence on the lives of Spaniards of the decisions that are made in the European Union. Assessment of them. — Degree of satisfaction with the European Union’s defence of the interests of Spain. — Degree of agreement with the protection of Spanish products. — Opinion on the free movement of workers in the European Union. — Assessment of how the Government of Spain defends its interests before the European Union. — Capacity, influence and prestige of Felipe González before the European Union. — Degree of interest in news related to the European Union. — Knowledge of the country currently presiding over the European Union. — Objectives of Spain during the six months in which it is to preside over the European Union. — Knowledge of the think tank for the reform of the Treaty The Union or Maastricht Treaty. — Degree of importance given that Spain presides over the European Union. — Assessment of Spain’s upcoming administration in the presidency of the European Union. — Assessment of the general situation in Spain and the news that it has found most worrying. — Assessment of the economic situation of Spain, currently and expectations to one year. — Assessment of the current political situation. — Assessment of the political performance of the PP. — Assessment of a possible PP Government. — Assessment of the current socialist government. — Degree of confidence and approval of Felipe González as President of the Government. — Assessment of a possible government with José Mª Aznar of President. — Opinion on the possibility of advancing the general elections. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Intention to vote in general elections. — Affinity with political parties. — I remember voting in the 1993 general election. — Remembrance of voting in elections to the European Parliament in 1994. — Employment expectations.