EU CRISES AS ‘CATALYSTS OF EUROPEANIZATION’? INSIGHTS FROM EUROBAROMETER DATA IN ROMANIA ON THE IMPACT OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS AND BREXIT
Journal: EUROPOLITY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
Year: 2018

For the last decade, the EU was confronted with an unprecedented series of subsequent and often overlapping crises -the constitutional crisis, the Euro crisis, the massive influx of migrants and refugees and last but not least, the Brexit referendum. They were all very different in structure, but they had a common element -they put to test the European Union's (EU) legitimacy. The main assumption of the study is that these recent crises in the EU directly influence the debates in the national pu