This study asks whether distance between party and voter on EU positions affects party support, and whether the effect depends on how salient EU politics are. Focusing on the party–voter dyad, the authors analyze patterns of EU issue voting in first-order national elections in five countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands) between 2017 and 2018, combining CHES, public opinion surveys, and Twitter data to construct distance and salience measures. The article reports that EU party positions appear to influence voting preferences and that EU salience moderates that relationship, while preserving the article’s stated qualifications about scope and measurement.
