2381|JANUARY 2000 BAROMETER

— Degree of interest in the monitoring of news related to Europe. — Degree of sympathy towards Germans, Czechs, French, Hungarians, Poles, Russians and Swedes. — Stereotypes of Polish and Spanish citizens. — Opinion on the degree to which Polish and Spanish citizens are different. — Opinion on the importance of Eastern European countries, and Poland in particular, in the European context. — Degree of agreement with different phrases on the current situation in Poland. — Attitude towards the integration of Eastern European countries into the European Union. Countries that must become members of the European Union and when they should. — To those who claim that Poland should become a member of the EU: most important reasons for the admission of Poland to the European Union. — To those who claim that Poland should not become a member of the EU: most important reasons for the non-admission of Poland to the European Union. — Opinion on the effect of Poland’s accession to the European Union on: people, Spain and the EU. — Acceptance of different situations related to the presence of Polish citizens in Spain. — Degree of closeness or knowledge of Poland. — Evaluation of the Spanish political situation, current, prospective and retrospective to one year. — Evaluation of the Spanish economic situation, current, prospective and retrospective to one year. — Knowledge and scale of valuation of political leaders. — Evaluation of the management carried out by the Government of the PP. — Evaluation of the political performance that the PSOE is having. — Knowledge and scale of assessment of the ministers who form the Government. — Degree of confidence in José Mª Aznar and Joaquín Almunia. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in the 1996 general election. — Vote fidelity in general elections in March 1996. — Electoral volatility in general elections in March 1996. — One-year employment and unemployment expectations.