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The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970sThe Rise of the Euro-narrative

The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970s: The Rise of the... [The Euro-narrative that promoted the EEC as a sui generis European polity was born in the Western European media during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Initially, the narrative held a rather marginal position and had to compete with other visions of European unity. However, it subsequently ascended to a dominant position in European integration coverage during the 1960s. This chapter argues that Euro-journalists and other Europeanist actors played a central role in the Euro-narrative’s rise in Western European media. Together, Euro-journalists, pro-European politicians, Europeanist intellectuals and EEC bureaucrats successfully created a space for the Communities and promoted the Euro-narrative inside media outlets and within Western European public discourse. The previous chapter focused on Euro-journalists’ biographies, ideas and presence inside important Western European media outlets during the 1950s and 1960s. This chapter, in a next step, will concentrate on Euro-journalists’ activities and influence. It will also emphasise the structural factors behind the mounting importance of the EEC: An evolving and growing EEC, as well as political and economic change in 1960s Western Europe.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Media, European Integration and the Rise of Euro-journalism, 1950s–1970sThe Rise of the Euro-narrative

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
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978-3-030-28777-1
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115 –174
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10.1007/978-3-030-28778-8_4
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[The Euro-narrative that promoted the EEC as a sui generis European polity was born in the Western European media during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Initially, the narrative held a rather marginal position and had to compete with other visions of European unity. However, it subsequently ascended to a dominant position in European integration coverage during the 1960s. This chapter argues that Euro-journalists and other Europeanist actors played a central role in the Euro-narrative’s rise in Western European media. Together, Euro-journalists, pro-European politicians, Europeanist intellectuals and EEC bureaucrats successfully created a space for the Communities and promoted the Euro-narrative inside media outlets and within Western European public discourse. The previous chapter focused on Euro-journalists’ biographies, ideas and presence inside important Western European media outlets during the 1950s and 1960s. This chapter, in a next step, will concentrate on Euro-journalists’ activities and influence. It will also emphasise the structural factors behind the mounting importance of the EEC: An evolving and growing EEC, as well as political and economic change in 1960s Western Europe.]

Published: Dec 12, 2019

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