Tracing the Politicisation of the EU

1. Towards a Multi-Faceted Approach to Politicisation in the EU.- Part 1: Politicisation of the EU as a polity.- 2. Between Optimism and Pessimism: Rethinking EU Politicisation in Theory, Conceptualisation and Research.- 3. Citizens' "permissive consensus" in European integration scholarship: Theoretical reflections on the EU politicisation and the democratic deficit discourse.- 4. Politicisation as a Speech Act. A Repertoire for Analysing Politicisation in Parliamentary Plenary Debates.- 5. The European Rescue of the Front National: From the Fringes towards the Centre of National Politics through EU Politicisation.- Part 2: Social media in the politicisation of the EU.- 6. Parliamentary Rhetoric Meets the Twittersphere: Rethinking the Politicisation of European Public Debates with the Rise of Social Media.- 7. The Politicisation of the EU and the Making of a European Twittersphere: The Case of the Spitzenkandidaten Process.- Part 3: EU politicisation narratives and patterns.- 9. Patterns of Politicisation in the 2019 European Elections: salience, polarisation and conflict over EU integration in (Eastern/Western) media coverage.- 10. The Commission Takes the Lead?  'Supranational Politicisation' and Clashes of Narratives on Sovereignty in the Context of the Future of Europe Debates.- 11. The European Commission's Communication Strategy as a Response to Politicisation in Times of EU Contestation.- 12. Make Europe Great Again: The Renewed Pro-European Narrative of Macron.- 13. Tracing the Politicisation of the EU: A Research Agenda for Exploring the Politicising Strategies in the Future of Europe Debates.

Taru Haapala is a Marie Curie fellow within the MSCA-COFUND InterTalentum programme at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and docent in Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her publications include Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action: Practices of Textual Interpretation and Analysis (2017).Alvaro Oleart is a postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht and the Department of Political Science of Maastricht University, Netherlands and a scientific collaborator at the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is the author of Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU Integration (2021).