Rallying around the EU flag: Russia's invasion of Ukraine and attitudes toward European integration
Journal: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
Year: 2022

Abstract This article uses a survey amongst students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes towards European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on 24 February 2022, and some did so just afterwards , thus delivering a quasi‐experimental design situation, which we exploit. Our results suggest that the ominous news about the Russian attack increased the participants' interest in EU politics, consol