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Towards a new strategy for EuropeWWWforEurope SurveyBelow you find some research questions and tentative answers for a new European strategy to be developed in the WWWforEurope project. We want to ask how much you agree or disagree. For each of these statements, you can choose whether you “strongly agree”, “agree”, “disagree”, or “strongly disagree”.
strongly agree
agree disagree strongly disagree
don't know
Challenges, trade-offs, synergies
1. Most industrialized countries will experience low growth rates over the next two decades
2. Social inequalities are a major challenge for European societies3. It is urgent to limit a further rise of global temperature 4. Ambitious climate policies are detrimental to economic growth5. Climate change is a long-run challenge. In the short run, politics
should address the problem of low growth first6. Economic growth is a prerequisite to reduce both unemployment
and social exclusion7. Economic policies to reduce social inequalities would boost
economic growth in Europe 8. Economic policy should address social and environmental goals
without considering what this means for economic growthPolicy recommendations
9. Economic policies should give lower priority on increasing labour productivity and higher emphasis on social innovations due to low growth and high unemployment
10. Restarting growth in Europe requires deregulation of product and labour markets and increasing entrepreneurship liberalisation
11. The EU should be a front runner in energy efficiency and renewables
12. A reduction of (daily, weekly) individual working hours is needed to reduce unemployment
13. Social policy should rather focus on providing equal opportunities than on ex post-redistribution
14. Subsidies for fossil energy should be eliminated quickly15. Taxes in Europe should be shifted from labour to energy and
resource use and consumption of 'public bads' (tobacco/alcohol)16. Europe needs a skill-oriented immigration policy.17. Europe needs more centralised economic governance18. Governments should limit financial speculation and tax fraud
more effectively19. Individuals should take more responsibility for providing for
themselves20. Europe needs a new socio-economic strategy urgently
Background information
Sex: Male Female
Age: <30 30 – 45 46-60 >60
Country of origin/or work (whatever more important):
Are you working forUniversity (not graduated student)University (graduated)Think Tank/Research Institute Government/Government AgencyNGO private company
other:
Academic degree in
economics and/or business administrationlawpoliticsany other social sciencesengineeringbiology, medical science, any other natural sciencesotherno academic degree
Political orientation (self-assessment) on a left to right-scale (1-5):Left Center Right
Please, save the questionnaire and return it by email to: [email protected]
You can also fill the questionnaire out online at http://survey.foreurope.eu
Contact for information
Kristin SmeralWWWforEurope – Project Management OfficeWIFO – Austrian Institute of Economic ResearchArsenal, Objekt 20, A-1030 [email protected]: +43 1 7982601 332
Domenico Rossetti di ValdalberoDG Research and InnovationEuropean [email protected]
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 290647.
