Conflicting conceptualizations of the future course of the European Union –Comparative Report

Abstract

This comparative report draws together the research outputs of seven partners from the EU Horizon 2020 project RESPOND. Researchers in Hungary, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Greece, Poland and Italy had undertaken analysis of how contestation of migration was impacting on discursive constructions of "Europe" in mainstream politics and media. Drawing on post-functionalist theories of European order, we aimed to capture the growing politicisation and contestation of areas of EU governance that had previously been depoliticised in national politics. This analysis is then extended to examine the impact of contestation on European self-understanding at the supranational level.