In light of the recent economic crisis, this paper examines how economic conditions shape public attitudes toward the European Union’s single currency, the euro. We argue that attitudes towards the euro are shaped by both utilitarian and symbolic concerns, but that economic insecurity is a key...

Although the 2007-2009 global financial crisis began in the United States, it did not take long for the European Union (EU) to suffer its contagious effects. In order to avoid their banking systems from imploding, many EU governments had to bail out these failing banks, just as the American...