All 12 EC countries must ratify the treaty for it to become law.

The data does not include Britain's trade with EC countries which accounts for half of total business.

Britain is the only EC country where more men than women are unemployed.

The poll was conducted among 12,800 people in all 12 EC countries.

British women spend more on clothes than women in any other EC country.

Since 1979, manufacturing growth has been weaker than that of any other EC country.

That is the normal model in many other EC countries.

At present, stock exchange membership in many EC countries is not open to outside interests.

They appeal more to those who want to spread their investments over several EC countries.

Suddenly other EC countries are interested in what the British have to say.