"In the EU experience, the very concept of union was formally used for the first time in the preamble of the 1957 Rome Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), when the signatory states expressed their determination "to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the...

Is the European crisis over? By no means, according to economist and journalist Carlo Bastasin. In fact, the problems that developed between 2008 and 2011 -described in the first edition of Saving Europe - have grown more insidious. The crisis originated when national governments failed to act...

Based on qualitative research conducted in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom, the article analyses the "citizens' perspective" on the "EU financial crisis" as it is communicated in the European public sphere. With reference to this aim, we argue in the following...