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Attitudes towards globalisation.Topics: awareness of the term ´globalisation´; attitude towards the development of globalisation; suitability of the own country’s economic structure with regard to globalisation; assessment of the EU as: too protectionist, too liberal, neither; assessment of existing regulation mechanisms to monitor the development of globalisation as sufficient; globalisation as an opportunity for national companies to profit from the opening of markets versus threat of national jobs and companies; attitude towards the effect of globalisation on: economic growth in the own country, cultural exchanges between countries, solidarity between countries, scientific and technical progress, democracy at a world-wide level, quality of public services, disparities between Northern and Southern countries, employment in the own country, environment, health; expected impact of globalisation on own family; benefit for each of the following actors from globalisation: consumers, financial markets, EU, United States, China, Japan, multinationals, small and medium sized companies, developing countries, farmers; assessment of the influence of selected actors on the process of globalisation as appropriate: political parties, trade unions, multinationals, financial circles, national governments, international institutions, consumer associations, anti-globalist movements, European Union, own country, United States; trust in the aforementioned institutions with regard to steering globalisation; assessment of the possibility to effectively control the process of globalisation; attitude towards the negotiations of the European Commission on behalf of the member states with selected countries on international trade: gives EU more bargaining power, ignores interests of own country; attitude towards demonstrations of anti-globalist movements during international summits: raise points that deserve to be debated, succeed in influencing national political decision makers,...