2339|BAROMETER OF MAY 1999: 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 — Assessment of the importance of the European Parliament in the life of the European Union. Degree of importance that the European Parliament would like to have — Perception of the extent to which decisions taken in the European Parliament affect Spaniards. Influence you believe you will have in the future — Phrase that best expresses its opinion on what interests Spanish MEPs should defend in the European Parliament: the Spaniards or those who defend the deputies of their own political ideology — 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, for Spanish interests, of the implementation of the euro — 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 March 1996 general elections — Electoral volatility in general elections in March 1996 — Employment and unemployment expectations