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Globalization and European Integration: Threat or Opportunity? - Perception, knowledge and policy preferences

9 Jan 2018

If you had to choose from the list below, which best de- scribes what the word means to you? — The increasing movement of products — The increasing movement of ideas — The increasing movement of money — The increasing movement of jobs — The increasing movement of people — The increasing connectedness of culture — The increasing connectedness of technology 5 • Please pick 3 in order of importance. [...] For example, supporters of the right-wing Republicans (Rep) in France, Forza D’Italia (FI) in Italy or the Law and Justice (PiS) party in Poland associate the word globalization mostly with the increased movement of people. [...] In figure 9, we pit the support for further political and economic integration of those respondents who are fearful of globalization against the views of the relative optimists. [...] For supporters of populist left-wing parties more Europe seems to be part of the answer to addressing their globalization fears, while for supporters of populist right parties the EU is part of the problem. [...] For supporters of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the Liberal party in Germany (FDP), the National Front (FN) and Socialist party (PS) in France and of Kukiz’15 (K’15) in Poland the management of migration is even seen as the top policy priority.
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