Why Europe?

Alina Bârgăoanu is a Communication Scholar and Dean of the College of Communication and Public Relations (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest). She is the President of the Management Board at the European Institute of Romania, President of the ECREA Temporary Working Group «Communication and the European Public Sphere» and «EU Communication and the European Public Sphere» Jean Monnet chair holder.Raluca Buturoiu is an Assistant Lecturer at the College of Communication and Public Relations (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration). She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences, with a thesis about mass communication effects. Her research interests cover communication theories, agenda-setting, framing and the (European) public sphere.Loredana Radu is an Associate Professor and Head of the Communication Department at the College of Communication and Public Relations (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration). She is the Director of the Center for EU Communication Studies and coordinator of the Jean Monnet teaching module «Patterns of Europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe».

• EU communication deficit – EU crises – representations and perceptions of Europe – narratives of europeanization – European identity – populism – extremism – euroscepticism – future of the EU