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| The German Marshall Fund is an institute that aims improving understanding and dialogue between Europe and the United States. It edits Transatlantic Trends each year. |
With Sammy, I had access to all of a sudden a huge amount of information it will take me years to analyze. Among all this, I came across a PDF quite interesting on the site of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, an organization that need to be worrying about in a future column so it is important (1) .
I had seen these documents at my research on the transatlantic market. These are the Transatlantic Trends (Transatlantic Trends). They are edited by GMFUS regularly, and show the "trend".
It covers the year 2010 (2) and contains very interesting information! Particularly a section entitled " Crisis of the Euro, but not the EU "...
in advance, sorry for the translation ...
What do you think of the Euro?
" When we asked citizens if the Euro was a good or bad for the economy of their countries, the responses were mostly negative . With few exceptions, majorities in all eurozone countries responded that the euro had been a bad thing for their economy, including two homes economic power, France (60%) and Germany (53%) , Spain also (53%) and Portugal (52%). [...] Only the Dutch (52%) and Slovaks (64%), a majority say that the euro has been good for their economy. "
" The Euro is not backed out. The majority of English (83%) and Poles (53%) [...] think using the Euro would be bad for their economy. "
And the European Union?
" Europeans continue to believe that strong leadership of the European Union is desirable . When questioned specifically about their economy, the majority of Europeans (63%) think being a member of the European Union, the largest economy in the world, was a good thing for their country. This view was widespread in the Netherlands (75%), Poland (75%), Germany (69%), Portugal (69%), Slovakia (68%) and Spain (67%).
other hand, Bulgarians (40%) and Britons (45%) were less positive about the economic benefits of EU membership. But in France, where the majority were negative for the euro, the majority (61%) maintains that membership in the EU was good for their economy . At about the same percentage of Italians (62%) [were positive]. "
" More than half of European respondents (57%) felt that the economic difficulties should result in a greater commitment to build a stronger European Union . Italians (76%), Portuguese (70%), Bulgarians (66%), Spaniards (65%) and Slovaks (64%) were especially favorable to closer integration. On the other hand, the British Euro-skeptics generally (33%) were less in agreement with this view. "
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| opinions in favor of European Union membership and use of the Euro |
Economic Decision Making?
"[...] A majority of European respondents (46%) also believe that to manage the current economic crisis, each national government should have primary responsibility . Nearly two-fifths of Europeans surveyed (39% ) responded that the EU should have the primary responsibility in managing the economic crisis current. Only in Germany, often described as the "locomotive of Europe", the majority (54%) believe the EU should have this responsibility and should take decisions on the economic .
This option was less popular in the United Kingdom (25%), Bulgaria (24%), Slovakia (22%), Romania (15%). The French were divided on the issue, with 47% preference for the national government, and 43% saying the EU should be in charge . "
And free trade (Free- Market)?
" The vast majority of Americans (90%) and Europeans (72%) believe that people are better in an economic free trade . Enthusiasm pro-free trade in British (81%) and Germans (78%) with almost rivals that of Americans. "
" support for free trade does not undermine the government. A large majority of respondents in the EU (78%) and Turkey (55%) continues to express the government has a role to play to regulate the market . The French (88%), Britain (86%) and Portugal (85%) were most inclined to support the role of government in market regulation. "
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The document contains extensive information on other topics such as NATO, the role of China Turkey and the EU etc..
Read because it is interesting!
can find all the details of the study http://www.gmfus.org/trends/doc/2010_English_Top. pdf including the methodology used and the number of participants from each country. You can more easily consult directly and statistics "key" countries Country ( http://www.gmfus.org/trends/2010/countryprofiles.html ).
Notes:
(1) Website of the German Marshall Fund of United States: http://www.gmfus.org/about_gmf
(2) Transatlantic Trends 2010 (PDF): http://www.gmfus.org/trends/doc/2010_English_Key.pdf
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