The existence of a European public sphere, a public network of exchange of opinions and ideas on political issues, has come to be seen as a prerequisite for the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. The paper conceptualizes the Europeanization of the national public spheres as a gradual...

Eine wachsende Zahl empirischer Arbeiten hat inzwischen gezeigt, dass der politische Integrationsprozess der Europäischen Union zwar von einer zunehmenden Europäisierung nationaler Öffentlichkeiten begleitet ist, die darüber erzeugte europäische Öffentlichkeit aber national segmentiert...

The existence of a European public sphere, a public network of exchange of opinions and ideas on political issues, has come to be seen as a prerequisite for the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. The paper conceptualizes the Europeanization of the national public spheres as a gradual...

This paper contributes to the ongoing quest for a European public sphere understood as a structural transformation of national media debates. The process of Europeanization has a vertical and a horizontal dimension: an increased focus on the EU as well as more attention for other European...