Peace, Prosperity and Protection: Narratives of Integration and the ‘Justification Jungle’ of Europe's Public Spheres

Pieter de Wilde*

*Corresponding author voor dit werk

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Samenvatting

The European Union (EU) is in search of a new narrative to create a sense of common purpose, but it is unclear around which values that narrative should be built. To analyse how different narratives resonate in Europe's public spheres, this article presents a novel dataset based on claims analysis of newspaper articles from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland and Denmark between 2012 and 2019 on the issues of migration, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), trade and counterterrorism. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses show how different frames have been used for various policy agendas. This reveals considerable variation, but comparatively low levels of explained variance. Europe's public spheres can thus be described as a ‘justification jungle’, where many actors use a range of arguments to back up diverging political demands. This poses a formidable obstacle to any single narrative of European integration.
Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)1194-1210
Aantal pagina's17
TijdschriftJCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies
Volume61
Nummer van het tijdschrift5
DOI's
StatusPublished - sep.-2023
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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