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This project is devoted to the study of European and national identities and the connections between them in nine countries (six EU member states and three associated states in Central and Eastern Europe) from an interdisciplinary, comparative perspective. The project concentrates on the role of the media in the formation of meanings and representations of the nation and Europe or the EU in each country. This research has to be seen against the backdrop of European integration studies and the recently emerging interest in the development of a European identity as a legitimacy basis of European integration.

The project lies at the crossroads between different research traditions on nations and European integration in political science, sociology, social psychology, cultural studies, history and international relations form which it will draw at the theoretical and methodological levels. It aims at analysing and comparing the intertwining of European and national identities and particularly the role of the Eastern enlargement in this, in the nine countries under examination. In each case, the relationship between national and European identities is analysed through the images, representations, understandings and meanings of Europe and the various nations at the different levels of political élites, the media and civil society. In the empirical research, special emphasis is laid on the role of the media as the discursive universe within which national and European identities are formed.

Objectives

To revise and increase existing knowledge on representations of the nation, Europe and the European Union in current member states (A, D, EL, I, E, UK) and associated countries (CZ, HU, PL).
To study the extent to which national loyalty and identification with Europe and/or the EU are mutually exclusive or compatible and intertwined with one another and to address understandings of the nation and the EU in relation to citizenship.
To highlight similarities and differences between the media, the elite and lay people understandings and representations of the EU and the nation and study the role of the media and the elites in creating a discursive universe
To analyse comparatively findings from the different countries concerning the above three points and study similarities and differences among countries along the East-West and North-South axes.
To inform media policies on the European integration and Eastern enlargement.


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				Objectives PROJECT ENDED [this page is no longer updated] EURONAT home Objectives Literature Partners and institutions Useful links This project is devoted to the study of European and national identities and the connections between them in nine countries (six EU member states and three associated states in Central and Eastern Europe) from an interdisciplinary, comparative perspective. The project concentrates on the role of the media in the formation of meanings and representations of the nation and Europe or the EU in each country. This research has to be seen against the backdrop of European integration studies and the recently emerging interest in the development of a European identity as a legitimacy basis of European integration. The project lies at the crossroads between different research traditions on nations and European integration in political science, sociology, social psychology, cultural studies, history and international relations form which it will draw at the theoretical and methodological levels. It aims at analysing and comparing the intertwining of European and national identities and particularly the role of the Eastern enlargement in this, in the nine countries under examination. In each case, the relationship between national and European identities is analysed through the images, representations, understandings and meanings of Europe and the various nations at the different levels of political élites, the media and civil society. In the empirical research, special emphasis is laid on the role of the media as the discursive universe within which national and European identities are formed. Objectives To revise and increase existing knowledge on representations of the nation, Europe and the European Union in current member states (A, D, EL, I, E, UK) and associated countries (CZ, HU, PL). To study the extent to which national loyalty and identification with Europe and/or the EU are mutually exclusive or compatible and intertwined with one another and to address understandings of the nation and the EU in relation to citizenship. To highlight similarities and differences between the media, the elite and lay people understandings and representations of the EU and the nation and study the role of the media and the elites in creating a discursive universe To analyse comparatively findings from the different countries concerning the above three points and study similarities and differences among countries along the East-West and North-South axes. To inform media policies on the European integration and Eastern enlargement.