Disruption and Politicisation of the Open EU Debate: the (diverse) roles of European Mediators in a Reconfigured Public Sphere

Abstract

The panel will present the final results of the Jean OpenEUdebate network discuss and wishes to engage with similar projects interested in presenting models of linking research, dissemination and public debates. The panel focuses on the analysis how ongoing disruption impacts styles, strategies and opportunities for the abovementioned mediators to translate political issues into transnational conversations. Furthermore, the war in Ukraine and the follow up of the Conference on the Future of the EU constitute an ideal occasion to discuss the dynamics of the European public sphere in times of politicization and disruption: the impact of participatory and deliberative mechanisms; the effects of bottom up and top down campaigns; the resonance of institutional debates (enlargement, new treaties, spitzenkandidaten) in European publics and the politization of frames of reference and collective action on issues such as rule of law, values or democracy.

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