An interesting divide in feelings about the level and rate of change of economic openness:

The survey, by the German Marshall Fund of the US, a transatlantic think-tank, shows that public opinion across a range of European countries and America has become more confident over the past year about economic growth and the positive effects of existing international trade. But there is much less support for more trade liberalisation, with 59 per cent of American respondents and 58 per cent of French thinking that freer trade will cost them more jobs than it creates. [FT]