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Attitude towards the EU and the European Constitution. European economy and globalisation. Energy. Agricultural policy. Topics: 1. Attitude towards the EU and the European Constitution: frequency of political discussions with friends; personal opinion leadership; life satisfaction; expectations for the next twelve months regarding: personal life in general, the national economic and employment situation, the financial situation of the own household, and the personal job situation; assessment of the present personal situation compared with five years ago; future expectations regarding the personal situation; trust in institutions; assessment of the own country’s membership in the EU as a good thing; benefits from the EU membership; impact of the own country’s EU membership on selected areas (country’s security, exports, standard of living, agriculture, industry, services, and employment); EU image; attitude towards the development towards a European political union; meaning of the EU to the respondent; personal feelings towards the EU; perceived personal political efficacy in the EU as well as understanding of the processes in the EU; attitude towards higher involvement of the citizens in European affairs (scale: feeling of being involved in European affairs, desire for greater involvement, desire for greater efforts of the European institutions, the national and the local government to further involve citizens in European affairs); assessment of the current and the desired speed of building Europe (scale); fears about the European Union in terms of: power loss for smaller member countries, increase in drug trafficking and international organised crime, higher payments of the own country to the EU, loss of social benefits, loss of national identity, language and culture, economic crisis, transfer of jobs to other member countries, difficulties for national farmers; additionally in non-euro countries: end of national currency; frequency of the reception of news in...