The Journalistic Information about the European Union. The Journalistic Interest of the European Matters in Three European Countries Media: Poland, Romania and Spain

Three European research teams from the academic field meet to study the interest of media in matters concerning of the common European space. The results show that the European Union and its member countries do not constitute, at the moment, a usual priority issue in informative agendas of analyzed media in Poland, Romania and Spain. These results can be deduced of the analysis of the indicators of journalistic interest, such as, for example: the priority use of routine news to cover the European events; the low media interest in the Europeanist debate; the insignificant percentage of European news that media highlight on their front pages or summaries; the reduced length or extension of the majority of European news, the lack of an accurate knowledge by citizens of who is behind the spread news

The European Union in the Romanian Online Media

This paper analyzes the way that the image of European Union is reflected in the Romanian online media. The website Hotnews was monitored between 21 January and 21 February 2013. The aim of the analysis is to reveal the amount of space dedicated to the European information, the countries of the EU that are most mentioned, the connotation of the messages on the EU and its member countries in the online media (thematic areas preferred, key issues preferred, coverage of EU Institutions)