This book discusses and conceptualises key questions for the study of politicisation and democratisation of the EU, as well as EU identity. Comparatively analysing two prototypical cases, namely the discourses related to the ratification of the EU Constitutional Treaty in 2005 in Germany and France.

Claudia Wiesner is Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, as well as adjunct Professor in Political Science at Jyväskylä University (Finland).

1. Introduction: EU politicisation, EU democratisation, EU identity and national EU discourses
2. The Democratisation of the EU, European Identity and National EU Discourses
3. Methodology and Research Design
4. France: The Discourse
5 Germany: The Discourse
6. The discourses in comparison
7. The Contexts in comparison
8. EU politicisation, EU democratisation, and EU identity: What to learn from the 2005 discourses?