collective identities. A European collective identity is perceived in terms of the discursive representation of the underlying … demos of a European democracy. Against the common view that holds the self-identified political community as prior and … independent of constitutional designing, it is claimed that democracy rather operates through the identification of popular …

framework is developed distinguishing between the critical and the representative function of media opinion-making. Journalists …

. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

What kind of democracy might fit the developing Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) given the political …

collection of party positions or characteristic of public opinion. Thirdly, it points to the media as central players and … to the public and media sphere as the principal locus of analysis. …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the media debates concerning ratification of the Treaty establishing a … empirical basis for the paper are the results of an extensive media content analysis of ratification debates in six countries … Europe. New media coverage of the EU is affected by problems of a lack of professionalisation, training, resources and …

international conflict management. Has the media in the EU Member States reflected this change? Our study reveals that the EU …, despite its limited institutional capacity in external security affairs, is present in media cover-age on international … appropriate media perception of EU foreign and security policy and to an emerging European problem-solving community. The study is …

mass media constitute the core framework in the transnationalisation of the public sphere. This paper argues that such an …