“…However, to the best of our knowledge, only one publication has directly tackled the question whether more 'Europe' leads citizens to grow dissatisfied with (domestic) democracy: the work of Dluhosch et al (2016). Our work has much in common with that of Dluhosch et al (2016) -who examine whether EU enlargements decrease satisfaction with democracy. These authors also rely on data from the Eurobarometer surveys to study satisfaction with democracy, and they conclude that EU enlargement has negatively affected satisfaction with democracy.…”