2288|BAROMETER OF MAY 1998: EUROPEAN UNION

— Degree of information about the European Union and interest in news related to it. — Assessment of the effect for Spain of membership of the European Union: in general and on various socio-economic aspects. — Current and prospective Europeanist sentiment. — Attitude towards the European Union, personal, among people around you and in your town or city. — Feeling about a hypothetical dissolution of the European Union. — Degree of confidence that the European Union will solve the employment problem. — Institution, Spanish Government or European Commission, on which it trusts more to solve this problem. — Knowledge and interest in the recent Summit of the EU member countries in Brussels. — Assessment of the outcome of the Brussels Summit for: the interests of Spain, the future of the European Union, the consolidation of the Economic and Monetary Union. — Knowledge about Spain’s compliance with the criteria required to be part of the Economic and Monetary Union. — Feeling of optimism or pessimism that produces, in view of the future of Spain and that of its family economy, the admission of Spain to the Single Market. — Knowledge of the name of the future European currency. — Degree of agreement with the replacement of the peseta by the euro. — Opinion on the effects that the implementation of the euro will have on the household income/price ratio and on the cost/benefit ratio for member countries. — Assessment of the effect on Spanish interests of the introduction of the euro. — Access to one of the brochures of the Government’s Communication Campaign that explain the implementation process of the euro. Evaluation of this campaign. — Evaluation of the current economic situation of the country and prospective one year. — Evaluation of the current political situation of the country and prospective one year. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in March 1996 general elections. — Vote fidelity in general elections in March 1996. — Electoral volatility in general elections in March 1996. — Job expectations of employment and unemployment.