Karolína Garančovská and Monika Brusenbauch Meislová Analyse How the EU Talks About Crises in Their New JCMS Article
Karolína Garančovská and Monika Brusenbauch Meislová have published a new article in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.
The article deals with the discursive dimension of the EU crisification. It develops a novel conceptual framework for analysing discursive crisification across five dimensions and applies it to a unique longitudinal study of EU institutional discourse. Using a multi-method approach combining discourse network analysis and content analysis, the study examines a large dataset of tweets from six key EU institutions over an extensive 2012–2024 period. The findings reveal that whilst the breadth of crisified issues has remained stable, the emergence of new crises, the pre-emptive framing of potential crises and the articulation of interconnected crises have intensified in recent years. This shift towards a permanently crisis-aware EU reflects an evolving governance mode that reinforces crisis-driven policy-making, with significant implications for EU legitimacy and public perceptions.
