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[q1] How interested are you at present/how closely do you follow matters related to Finland's EU membership?
[q2] How well informed do you feel about such issues? Do you feel...
[q3_1] Views on EU membership: As a neighbour of the unstable Russia, it is safer for Finland to be an EU member than to be outside it
[q3_2] Views on EU membership: EU membership fees are much too high compared with the advantages of membership
[q3_3] Views on EU membership: Even if EU has it own problems, it is nevertheless the only power which can guide and control European development
[q3_4] Views on EU membership: Finland should stay outside NATO, even if Sweden and the Baltic countries were to join
[q3_5] Views on EU membership: Estonia's EU membership would weaken Finland's competitive position and reduce jobs in our country
[q3_6] Views on EU membership: It was the right decision for Finland to join EMU
[q3_7] Views on EU membership: The fact that Finland takes over the EU presidency in 1999 will bring the Union closer to Finns
[q3_8] Views on EU membership: Regardless of cost, EU must participate in solving the environmental problems of future member countries in Eastern and Central Europe
[q3_9] Views on EU membership: EU funding should be used to subsidize Finland's remote rural areas rather than to support future member countries
[q3_10] Views on EU membership: There is enough reliable information available to everybody about matters related to Finland's EU membership
[q3_11] Views on EU membership: Finland should leave the EU
[q3_12] Views on EU membership: As an EU member Finland will eventually join a military alliance (NATO, WEU)
[q3_13] Views on EU membership: Finland should be capable of ensuring its own security in all circumstances, others cannot help us
[q3_14] Views on EU membership: Sweden made a wise decision in deciding to stay outside EMU for the time being
[q3_15] Views on EU membership: It makes no difference whether our laws are made in the Finnish parliament or in the EU, as long as they are just
[q3_16] Views on EU membership: EU should prevent American and Japanese giant corporations from penetrating European markets
[q3_17] Views on EU membership: Candidates' views on the EU have a strong effect on whom I will vote for in the parliamentary elections next spring
[q3_18] Views on EU membership: European Central Bank is surely going to succeed in fighting inflation
[q3_19] Views on EU membership: EU member states should be able to influence European Central Bank's policy
[q3_20] Views on EU membership: The transition from the Finnish mark to the single currency euro will cause a lot of confusion and many practical problems
[q3_21] Views on EU membership: Finnish government and parliament took quite a big risk in deciding to join the uncertain EMU
[q3_22] Views on EU membership: The decision to join EMU was good, as it proved that Finland is able to make decisions and changes, not just talk
[q3_23] Views on EU membership: After the introduction of the euro, I will closely compare our prices and taxes to those of other countries
[q3_24] Views on EU membership: Finland's presidency of the EU makes no difference to Finns, since the doings of the leaders have no contact with the life of ordinary citizens
[q3_25] Views on EU membership: Finland's EU presidency right after the parliamentary elections is such a demanding task that the present government should carry on
[q3_26] Views on EU membership: EU's nature conservation programme Natura infringes too much on the rights of Finnish landowners
[q4_1] During its EU presidency Finland should: Increase the knowledge of Finland in other EU countries
[q4_2] During its EU presidency Finland should: Focus mainly on promoting its national interests
[q4_3] During its EU presidency Finland should: Focus mainly on issues concerning the whole EU
[q4_4] During its EU presidency Finland should: Above all, work fairly and impartially during its chairmanship
[q4_5] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote Finnish exports in all possible ways
[q4_6] During its EU presidency Finland should: Try and slow down projects not important for Finland
[q4_7] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote EU - Russia relations
[q4_8] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote gender equality within the Union
[q4_9] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote the creation of common EU foreign and security policy
[q4_10] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote the creation of EU common employment policy
[q4_11] During its EU presidency Finland should: Preserve and increase vitality of national cultures
[q4_12] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote the efficiency of international crime prevention
[q4_13] During its EU presidency Finland should: Show how well our forests and the rest of the environment are cared for
[q4_14] During its EU presidency Finland should: Bring EU's common social policy towards the Nordic concept
[q4_15] During its EU presidency Finland should: Attract foreign enterprises to Finland
[q4_16] During its EU presidency Finland should: Secure viability of agriculture in Finland (and elsewhere)
[q4_17] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote EU enlargement
[q4_18] During its EU presidency Finland should: Especially promote Estonia's EU membership
[q4_19] During its EU presidency Finland should: Reduce bureucracy and complexity of administration in the EU
[q4_20] During its EU presidency Finland should: Promote transparency in the EU
[q5] What is your present attitude towards Finland's EU membership?
[q6] Has your attitude to EU membership changed after Finland became a member?
[q7_1] Views on EU decision-making: Functions well, considering the number and diversity of EU states
[q7_2] Views on EU decision-making: Slow and inefficient; decisions postponed from one meeting to another
[q7_3] Views on EU decision-making: Too often decisions are dictated by big member states
[q7_4] Views on EU decision-making: Open and transparent
[q7_5] Views on EU decision-making: Complicated and difficult to understand
[q7_6] Views on EU decision-making: Is carried out in good cooperation between member states
[q7_7] Views on EU decision-making: EU parliament should be given more decision-making power
[q7_8] Views on EU decision-making: EU Commission should be given more decision-making power
[q7_9] Views on EU decision-making: Finland has very quickly learned the rules of EU decision-making; is an 'insider'
[q7_10] Views on EU decision-making: Makes too many watered-down compromises which are of no use to anybody
[q7_11] Views on EU decision-making: Too scrupulous, too many detailed regulations
[q7_12] Views on EU decision-making: Is able to reconcile even conflicting intrests of various EU states
[q7_13] Views on EU decision-making: Tries to solve too many important issues simultaneously
[q7_14] Views on EU decision-making: Deepens the gap between citizens and decision-makers even in Finland
[q7_15] Views on EU decision-making: The whole decision-making system needs immediate reform / clarification
[q7_16] Views on EU decision-making: Sooner or later is bound to reach the limits of its own impossibility
[q7_17] Views on EU decision-making: Is no more bureaucratic than Finland's own decision-making procedures
[q7_18] Views on EU decision-making: Is a way for managers of big companies and politicians to bypass democracy
[q7_19] Views on EU decision-making: Good for Finland; without the EU, worse decisions would have been made
[q7_20] Views on EU decision-making: The media favours the EU in its reporting
[q7_21] Views on EU decision-making: Finnish decision-makers use the Union to cover up their own mistakes
[q7_22] Views on EU decision-making: EU flag / EU passport unnecessary and inefficient in making EU seem closer to citizens
[q7_23] Views on EU decision-making: The decision-making power of national governments should not be restricted
[q7_24] Views on EU decision-making: Is so demanding that should be left to the real experts
[q7_25] Views on EU decision-making: Can be expected to function only if EU deepens integration and develops into a Federal EU
[q7_26] Views on EU decision-making: It is necessary to have a commissioner from every member country
[q8_1] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Guarantee energy supplies, e.g. gas from the northern sea areas
[q8_2] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Promote cultural cooperation and travel
[q8_3] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Tie Russia into closer cooperation with the EU
[q8_4] EU's Northern Dimension project should: In the long term, promote Russia's EU membership
[q8_5] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Increase Finland's status in the Union
[q8_6] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Increase security in Northern Europe
[q8_7] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Promote free movement of labour within the whole Northern Dimension area - from the Arctic Ocean to Poland
[q8_8] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Promote the use of EU funding to repair environmental damage in Russia
[q8_9] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Try to put Finland in a bridgehead position in the Russia - EU relations
[q8_10] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Focus on getting Karelia back as a part of Finnish territory
[q8_11] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Focus on cleaning up the Baltic Sea
[q8_12] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Maintain good living conditions in the eastern and northern parts of Finland
[q8_13] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Try to speed economic growth in Russia in order to increase trade
[q8_14] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Focus specifically on cooperation within the Baltic Sea region
[q8_15] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Focus specifically on cooperation within the Arctic region (especially Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia)
[q8_16] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Reduce people's prejudices towards Russians
[q8_17] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Reduce the role of NATO in the region
[q8_18] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Reduce the role of the Russian mafia
[q8_19] EU's Northern Dimension project should: Increase the safety of nuclear power in the region
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[bv8] Respondent's membership of trade union
[bv9] If the parliamentary elections were held now, which party would you vote for?
[nuts2] Suuralue (NUTS 2)
