Citizens’ Support for the European Union During the Euro Crisis: Between Scylla and Charybdis

Abstract

This concluding chapter begins with outlining the main findings of all empirical analyses on how the Euro crisis and its repercussions changed citizens’ EU support and the underlying attitudinal mechanisms. Moreover, the chosen research design and the results give reason to discuss what contributions this book delivers to research on citizens’ attitudes towards the EU and where future research might fill existing gaps and enhance the research strategy at hand. As a final aspect, this chapter presents implications for policy-makers resulting from this book’s findings and ponders to what extent the EU has been between Scylla and Charybdis in its relation to the European citizens in donor and crisis countries.