An innovative collaborative research project which provides an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of public perception of politics. It is linked to Internet implications, providing the basis for further contrastive and comparative research on public discourse in the field of European politics.

Contents: British Discourse on Europe: British national identity in the European context, Gerlinde Mautner; Representations of Germany in the context of European integration in Margaret Thatcher's autobiographies, Ruth Wittlinger; A province of a federal super state, ruled by an unelected bureaucracy - keywords of the Euro-sceptic discourse in Britain, Wolfgang Teubert; German Discourse on Europe: Words, phases and argumentational structures in the German debate on Europe in the early post-war period, Heidrun Kÿmper; Euro: the career of a European neologism in German press texts (1995-1999), Dieter Herberg. Comparative Studies: The European debate in and between Germany and Great Britain, Colin Good; The metaphorization of European politics: movement on the road to Europe, Andreas Musolff; Attitudes to Europe - mediated by translation, Christina Schÿffner; Der Ton wird schÿrfer. Stereotypes in media translation, Arachne van der Eijk-Spaan.