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The future of Europe. Attitude towards the European Single Market and transborder purchases. Consumer protection. Family planning. Topics: 1. Questions regarding Europe: frequency of own opinion leadership; time of last internet use; happy with the family life, with the current occupation, and with living in the own country; financial difficulties at the end of the month; associations with the words “European Union”; visit to another EU country; reading books, magazines, and newspapers in a foreign language as well as contact with other EU citizens in the last year; frequency of political discussions with friends on national and European matters; assessment of the EU membership of the own country as a good thing; preference for more or less decision-making at European level with regard to: the fight against unemployment, the protection of social rights, ensuring economic growth, the fight against organised crime and terrorism, ensuring food safety, the protection of the environment, the prevention of major health issues, equal treatment of men and women, the protection of agriculture, the global promotion of democracy and peace, cooperation in research and innovation, ensuring continuous energy provision; image of the European Union as modern, democratic, protective, inefficient, and technocratic; assessment of the progress in the economic and political unification of Europe, and in the cultural cooperation; helpful issues for the future of Europe: common language, well defined external EU borders, introduction of the euro in all EU countries, comparable living standards, common army and constitution; most positive result of the European unification (peace among the member states, free movement of persons, services, and goods, the euro, student exchange programmes such as ERASMUS, common agricultural policy); issue competence of the European Union (scale: fight against unemployment, protection of social and human rights, ensuring economic growth, fight against...