Questioning European Values Significance? MEPs Discourse Regarding Russia and Israel

European values' characteristics put them at the core of the European integration process, meaning that the member-states should accept and respect them. However, the polycrises era has brought European values' role under question, as more often, the member-states define values' content according to their interests, or, worst, they present their disdain against them. After various crises that disrupted the EU's function, geopolitical crises present new challenges for the Union. Two of the most significant at this moment are the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Both episodes question the EU's role in the region and a world where transformations have accelerated. Whilst the Russian invasion is part of a broader redefinition of the EU's relation with Russia, the conflict in Gaza questions more profound ideas and memories: anti-semitism and anti-Islamism. Considering the significance of observing how and when these two definitions appear in the MEP's work, I focus on the European Parliament's parliamentary debates, covering the last parliamentary session (between 2019 and 2024). As it is difficult to research all the member states, I decreased my sample to cover Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Greek MEPs. After applying constructivist grounded theory, my results will be coded, categorised, analysed, and visualised with MAXQDA.