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Since the early 1970s the European Commission´s Standard & Special Eurobarometer are regularly monitoring the public opinion in the European Union member countries. Principal investigators are the Directorate-General Communication and on occasion other departments of the European Commission or the European Parliament. Over time, candidate and accession countries were included in the Standard Eurobarometer Series. Selected questions or modules may not have been surveyed in each sample. Please consult the basic questionnaire for more information on country filter instructions or other questionnaire routing filters. In this study the following modules are included: 1. Perception and awareness about state aid, 2. Gender-based violence, 3. EU consumer habits regarding fishery and aquaculture products.Topics: 1. Perception and awareness about state aid: awareness of state aid in the own country in the last twelve months in selected media; self-rated knowledge about state aid in the own country; ease of finding information; level of public authority giving most support to companies: local, regional, national, European; attitude towards the following statements: citizens should have full access to information, sufficient availability of information, information should remain confidential; kind of information that should be published: name of company, amount, granting authority, time, purpose, results, cumulative amount received over several years; attitude towards selected statements about transparency in relation to state aid: efficient way to make policy-makers accountable to citizens, can improve management of public money, relevant for companies as well as for citizens, has significantly improved in the own country over the last years; type of company that should provide open access to all information about state aid received: small and medium-sized companies, large companies, state-owned companies; need for more transparency by industrial sector; preferred option...