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Table 10: SOCIAL BENEFIT FOR COMPETITIVE EUROPE  (% by country)

Q. EN - If we want Europe to be competitive in world markets, do you think we need to...?

1. reduce the amount of social benefit/protection* we pay out by a lot (REDUCE CONSIDERABLY OUR SOCIAL BENEFIT/PROTECTION);
2. reduce the amount of social benefit/protection* we pay out by a small amount (REDUCE NOT CONSIDERABLY OUR SOCIAL BENEFIT/ PROTECTION);
3. Europe is capable of being competitive in world markets without changing the level of our social benefit/protection* system (KEEP THE LEVEL OF OUR SOCIAL BENEFIT/ PROTECTION SYSTEM). (* In the UK use benefit, elsewhere use protection if possible)

Answer	A	B	DK	D East	D	D West	GR	E	F
Reduce considerably our social benefit/protection	10	9	19	18	17	17	6	7	11
Reduce not considerably our social benefit/protection	49	29	29	32	36	37	15	16	23
Keep the level of our social benefit/protection	35	42	43	41	40	40	72	60	62
Don't know	5	20	9	9	7	6	8	17	4
TOTAL	99	100	100	100	100	100	101	100	100
Answer	IRL	I	L	NL	P	FIN	S	GB	EU15
Reduce considerably our social benefit/protection	14	13	5	14	11	6	12	12	12
Reduce not considerably our social benefit/protection	24	30	24	30	16	31	26	18	26
Keep the level of our social benefit/protection	56	43	57	43	45	57	50	57	51
Don't know	6	14	14	14	28	5	12	13	11
TOTAL	100	100	100	101	100	99	100	100	100