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Debating Europe: Politicization, Contestation, and Democratization

Open Access

Academic Editor(s): Claudia Wiesner (Fulda University of Applied Sciences) and Meta Novak (University of Ljubljana)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.i452

Table of Contents

How Trickle‐Down Democracy Won the Debate, and Why It Didn’t Have To
Jan Pieter Beetz, Gilles Pittoors and Wouter Wolfs
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 August 2025
Too Far to Reach? Explaining Low Croatian Participation in the European Citizens' Initiative
Igor Vidačak, Mario Munta and Ana Matan
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 August 2025
Sovereignty Crises and the EU’s Moral Challenge
Elia R. G. Pusterla and Francesca Pusterla Piccin
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 August 2025
Principled Politicization: When Citizens Debate the EU and its Regime Principles
Nicolas Arens, Claire Dupuy and Virginie Van Ingelgom
Article | Open Access | Published: 7 August 2025
Reporting EU Politics in News Venues: An Issue of Democratic Deficit?
Muriel Cathérine Wenzel
Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2025
Hijacking Democracy: Proposals on the Future of the European Union in Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia (2015–2022)
Max Steuer
Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2025
How European Do Young Slovenians Feel?
Meta Novak and Damjan Lajh
Article | Open Access | Published: 13 August 2025
Nested, Pooled, or Exclusively National? Contested Sovereignty Models in Debates on the Future of Europe
Magdalena Góra, Elodie Thevenin and Katarzyna Zielińska
Article | Open Access | Published: 19 August 2025
National EU Discourses in Germany and France and the Construction of European Identity
Claudia Wiesner
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025
Debating Employment in National TV News: Depoliticised Discourses and Overlooked EU Policies
Damien Pennetreau
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025