Notleidend: Defizite europaischer Offentlichkeit
In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen: Analysen zu Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 12-17
ISSN: 2192-4848
In his article, Ulrich K. Preuss illustrates deficits of the so-called European public. Chiefly, given that the European Union exists as a union of states and peoples, there is no European communication community. A European communication community could emerge if there were a European political sphere. This requires a transnational coding of politicizable societal conflict, and eventually a "transnationalization of social struggles". The author believes that these voices would not speak in their national accents, but from their "specific and distinct social origins". A European visibility in the public would thus allow commonalities to flourish even in a context of plurality. Adapted from the source document