Vous consultezL’absence de conflictualisation des débats politiques sur l’Union européenne au sein des presses nationales : une analyse de contenu quantitative comparée des cas français, britannique, irlandais et espagnol (2005-2006)

The absence of conflict of the political debates on the EU in national newspapers : a quantitative comparative content analysis of the French, British, Irish and Spanish cases (2005-2006)
On the basis of a comparative quantitative content analysis, this article deals with the main modalities of appropriation and with the dominant actors of the political debates on Europe within national newspapers in France, in Great-Britain, in Ireland and in Spain between 2005 and 2006. It is focused on the paradoxes of party communication, developing the hypothesis of the absorption of European issues within established cleavages through the nationalization and the presidentialisation of political debates. Those debates on the EU as transcribed by national presses, foster domestic frames and the low visibility of the European level, while reinforcing the asymmetries of power between distinct actors, in their capability to assure a representation and a visibility to their frames, which thus forges exchanges which are mainly structured through an uncontentious modality.