In Europe, the last decade has been shaped by euro crisis, migration
crisis and corona crisis. Studies have analyzed how citizens react to
crises in their voting behavior. This political economy analysis
examines the research gap to what extent repeated crisis exposure within
a short period of time can deepen existing Euroskepticism. It is defined
as an index consisting of the individual identification as European, the
view on the EU and on own country's benefits of EU membership. Survey
results of the Eurobarometer of all 28 EU member states, including the
United Kingdom, in combination with macroeconomic data are analyzed
using modern econometric methods. Bootstrapping and entropy balancing
ensure conservative estimates. We find that a single crisis exposure
increases existing Euroskepticism, but that the temporal distance
between the crises matters. The impact of a crisis on the current
situation marginalizes with its temporal distance. Furthermore, a
hysteresis-like effect occurs: After the crisis ends, the Euroskepticism
level does not go back to its pre-crisis level. Especially today, when
(Western) democracy is under attack from many sides, this work extends
the understanding of the influence of crises on political behavior
aiming to derive recommendations how to act in the future.