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Cet article applique les écrits théoriques sur le patriotisme constitutionnel « post-national » à une étude de cas concrète. En revenant sur les sanctions adoptées en 2000 par quatorze gouvernements de l'Union européenne contre une coalition gouvernementale autrichienne contestée et sur les débats que cette initiative a suscités, il met en exergue certaines difficultés liées à la transposition du modèle du patriotisme constitutionnel à l'Union européenne. En particulier, il insiste sur la dimension communicationnelle du patriotisme constitutionnel et identifie la faiblesse de l'espace public européen comme l'un des principaux obstacles à cette transposition.

In recent years, government officials in Hungary, Poland and Austria have contested the authority of the EU in areas linked to core state powers, such as democracy and the rule of law and migrations. Analyzing the discursive strategies displayed by conservative and/or right-wing governments in these countries, the article shows how the old conflict line over sovereignty that has traditionally shaped the integration process–supranational vs domestic sovereignty–is being complemented by a new discourse which consists in disparaging EU 'interference' in the very name of European values and a common European identity, defined in opposition to multiculturalism and political liberalism. Pioneered by Viktor Orban, this discourse has been circulating among other Central European heads of government and incumbent parties' officials in the wake of the refugee 'crisis', which opened up a discursive opportunity structure for its diffusion. ; SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published