Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nI8tPOePey" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nI8tPOePey</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2344849" target="_blank" >10.1080/13501763.2024.2344849</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Converging on Europe? The European Union in mediatised debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine shocks

Original language description

European integration is at risk of becoming stuck in a &apos;politics&apos; trap: Diverging national EU politicisation inhibits joint agreements which fuels public debates further. What can break this vicious circle? We argue that large and symmetrical exogenous shocks may reduce the divergence of national public EU debates to then study how the COVID-19 and Ukraine crises have altered mediatised EU portrayals across 753,435 articles from 228 major online news sites in the 27 EU member states during the 2018-2023 period. We find that the Covid and especially the Ukraine shock led to higher convergence in the public salience of the EU and the issue areas associated with this while partially also muting domestic party presence. However, we note that these effects appear short-lived. Large exogenous shocks thus do not lift the politicisation constraints on European integration permanently but offer at least windows of opportunity that may facilitate intergovernmental compromise.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of European Public Policy

ISSN

1350-1763

e-ISSN

1466-4429

Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

3036-3065

UT code for WoS article

001207961700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85191042105