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In this paper, Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and pluri-lingual setting, relying on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from EuroPolis.

ARENA Working Paper 13/2010 (pdf)

Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz

In this article Trenz argues that the tension between normative standards and legitimating practice should be considered as constitutive for the emergence of a European public sphere. Against recent attempts to define the European public sphere in purely descriptive terms, this implies the need to re-introduce the normativity of the public sphere as part of the dynamics of an evolving communicative space in Europe.

ARENA Working Paper 12/2008 (pdf)

Hans-Jörg Trenz

This conceptual paper provides a working definition of politicisation of European integration, based on a literature review.

ARENA Working Paper 18/2007 (pdf)

Pieter de Wilde