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Attitudes towards the European Union.Topics: associations with the term ‘Europe’; feeling of national and / or European identity; most important elements of the European identity (split A); attitude towards the following statements on European integration: EU membership of France is a good thing, guarantees peace on the continent, contributes to France’s prosperity, protects from negative effects of globalisation, threatens national identity, makes France stronger against the rest of the world, costly for France, 2004 EU enlargement was a good thing, shared values between member states set EU apart from the rest of the world, need for further integration even if that means a loss of national sovereignty, develop competitiveness of the European economy in order to maintain social protection, harmonization of social policies (split A), reconcilement of existing national social policies (split B), interdiction of subsidies for enterprises, contributes to a better quality of life in France; assessment of the impact of European integration on France with regard to the following aspects (split A): citizens, economic growth, employment, cost of living, social protection, consumer protection, quality of public services, agriculture, airspace security, quality of the environment, education, small and medium enterprises; importance of the EU as economic market and political project (split B); expected benefit of the cooperation on EU level with regard to the following issues (split B): foreign policy and defence, international trade, competitiveness of enterprises, consumer protection, fight against insecurity, fight against terrorism, fight against unemployment, environmental protection, quality of public services, support of poor countries, energy, fight against illegal immigration, integration of non-European immigrants, research and development, quality of education; attitude towards the European constitution (split A); attitude towards selected countries joining the...