Crisis, Contention, and Euroscepticism
Euroscepticism has increased since the onset of what has been termed Europe's ‘polycrisis’. From the 2008 global financial meltdown through the 'migrant crisis' and into the era of COVID-19, populist politics and protest movements have become common. Prolonged crisis conditions threaten not only the credibility of the European Union, but also erode social trust more generally. Governance challenges go beyond the surface level of perceived emergency, economic anxiety, and contentious politics: taken-for-granted assumptions become less stable, sometimes shifting into unexpected and contradic...