The project engages in issue of the discursive construction(s) of the EU’s self-legitimation,
exploring how EU institutions contribute to the politics of (re)legitimating the EU in response to multiple recent crises of the European integration. Its overarching aim is to provide an insight into how and in what ways EU institutions self-legitimise themselves as actors in the EU-policy making (and by extension, also the EU polity as such) in an age of permanent emergency. More specifically, working with a large corpus of data and adopting a mixed-method approach, it investigates the ways in which four EU institutions (European Commission, European Parliament, European Council and Council of the EU) discursively self-legitimise themselves vis-á-vis four recent EU-level crises (Eurocrisis, rule of law crisis, climate change crisis and the war in Ukraine), through different linguistic and discursive devices. It shows how different (re)presentations of EU crises sustain the discursive framing of the EU institutions (and the EU polity as such).

Sustainable Development Goals

Masaryk University is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to improve the conditions and quality of life on our planet by 2030.

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