nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190324-202515-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190319s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190324-202515-0 doi eng 342 23 Alemanno, Alberto Author aut The Birth of Political Europe Alemanno, Alberto Verfassungsblog 2019-03-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier With just 90 days to go before the European Parliament elections, the EU political and societal landscape is undergoing a profound and historical shake-up. This goes well beyond the reductionist and highly-polarized depiction of the pro-EU vs anti-EU / open vs closed society debate championed by our political class and magnified by the media. The effects of EU policies on citizens’ lives as further amplified by the Brexit collective journey have gradually led to the emergence of a timid, yet evolving, common pan-European debate. Yet, as epitomized by Emmanuel’s Macron multi-lingual op-ed unparallelly addressed to the whole EU electorate, this Europeanisation of the political conversation is unveiling an inconvenient truth. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 EP elections European Parliament Party System Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-birth-of-political-europe/ raw object