It is also interesting to note that deteriorating economic and fiscal conditions in one euro area country seem to reduce the level of trust in the EU of citizens in other countries; see Ioannou D., Jamet, J.-F. and Kleibl, J. (2015), Spillovers and Euroscepticism, Working Paper Series, No 1815, ECB. 3 In this vein, see also the evidence in Ehrmann et al.
(2013), which indicates that a “higher degree of knowledge  about the ECB generates more trust in normal times and even more so during the financial crisis”.