Table I

Percentages of Belgian and Swedish bureaucrats who receive instructions, have freedom of manoeuvre and adopt supranational allegiances, by domestic institutions

		Agencies, sectoral ministries	Permanent Representation, Foreign Office
Instructions
Sweden	I have clear instructions as to what positions to pursue (percentage saying ‘always or very often’)	67%	55%
Belgium	I always get very clear instructions from my ministry or my department as to what position I should take up (percentage saying ‘agree’ or ‘completely agree’)	27%	40%
Room of manoeuvre
Sweden	I have great amount of freedom when participating in Council working groups (percentage saying ‘always or very often’)	19%	16%
Belgium	The mandate I receive does not leave me much room of manoeuvre (percentage saying ‘disagree’ or ‘completely disagree’)	79%	90%
Allegiance to Europe
Sweden	Do you feel allegiance towards the European Union? (percentage saying ‘to a very large extent’ or ‘to a fairly large extent’)	27%	48%
Belgium	Percentage favouring a strongly united Europe instead of maintaining the autonomy of the member-states	61%	73%
		Swedish N = 26 Belgian N = 65	Swedish N = 20 Belgian N = 30