Vivien A. Schmidt states that one of the most significant consequences of the Eurozone financial crisis is the reduced popular support that it generated. This is further supported by Katsanidou and Otjes, who analysing crisis-stricken Greece in 2012, found that policy positions on economic issues are closely related to attitudes towards European integration[4]. This suggests that the impact of the crisis may have influenced in a negative way the perception that citizens have of the EU. In fact, this is corroborated by Katsanidou and Otjes in their argument that “due to European involvement in budgetary decision making in a country that was strongly affected by the crisis, citizens cannot conceive of expansionary budgetary policies without contesting the notion of Eurozone membership”[5]. However, Schmidt’s claims that despite the negative impact that the Eurozone crisis may have caused “Attitudes to the euro remain positive, but have decreased since the beginning of the crisis along with general attitudes towards the EU”. This suggests the possibility of the rise of electoral apathy, which places the democratic and legitimate structure that the EU has tried to embrace since the beginning in danger, because if there is not an agreement and coherency between the public opinion and possible new policies then member states and consequently the EU become illegitimate due to representation and lack of public consent, which is one of the essential characteristics of a democracy. Schmidt’s argument concords with Hix’s argument of “fair-weather phenomenon”[6], which highlights the existence of a correlation between public support and economic success, which can be observed through Eurobarometer opinion polls, which shows how during the second oil crisis in the early 1980 and rose in 1993 until 2010 there was some significant decrease in support with figures barely staying above 50%. However, the Eurobarometer also shows that in 1970s 60% of citizens supported EU membership[7] reaching a peak in 1991 achieving 70% of support, however, since 1996 there has been a decline barely staying above 50%, which is effectively intensified as a consequence of the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area, however, these figure also show that the European Union has suffered from a democratic-legitimacy crisis since the foundation of the EU, meaning that the Eurozone crisis should be more carefully mentioned during debates regarding the democratic stability of the EU as the Financial crisis can be regarded as having intensified an already existing democratic crisis that endangers its sovereign legitimacy. It is believed by many scholars that the EU suffers from a democratic deficit due to the growing lack of public engagement and political accountability and lack of a public sphere with demos characteristics. Kriesi have described the West European political space in terms of two dimensi>