The legitimation of the euro - Focus groups

<p>These focus groups were conducted&nbsp;in the context of the PLATO project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded project investigating the post-crisis legitimacy of the EU. In the wake of the migration crisis, euro crisis and&nbsp;Brexit it builds and tests&nbsp;theory of what would amount to a legitimacy crisis in the case of a multi-state, non-state political system such as the EU. (Project website: https://www.plato.uio.no)&nbsp;</p> <p>This PhD project studies how citizens perceive and justify the euro, as well as the politics it is connected with (its consequences in terms of questions like solidarity and national&nbsp;autonomy).</p> <p>This dataset concerns a series of focus groups conducted with citizens in 3 countries: the Netherlands, France and Italy. In each country, focus groups were conducted with 3 social groups: hairdressers, financial professionals and unemployed citizens. In these focus groups citizens were asked about their views about the euro, and to discuss a series of questions on the euro&#39;s politics, some preceded by a brief video clip.&nbsp;</p> <p>Participants have been anonymized; the names in the datasets are pseudonyms and any personally identifiable information was taken out.&nbsp;</p>