Linkages and channels between Cohesion Policy and European Identity

• Published in: Investigaciones regionales 2020-01 (46), p.5-7
• Main Authors: Suriñach, Jordi, Mollona, Edoardo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Automatic text analysis; Communication; Euroscepticism; Identification; Identity formation; Investigations; Perceptions; Regions; Social networks
• ISSN: 1695-7253; 2340-2717; 2340-2717

In this light, the papers presented display the multidisciplinary portfolio of competences and the connected variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods applied in the PERCEIVE project that includes surveys, focus groups, case studies, econometric modelling and innovative methods such as quantitative discourse analysis, which has been used to elicit the meaning structures in public discourse about the EU. [...]they inspect the role of European institutions by providing some basic figures on the regional expenditure on Structural Funds and its association with the awareness, support and identification with the EU project In their paper, Profiling identification with Europe and the EU project in the European regions Cristina Brasili, Pinuccia Calia and Irene Monasterolo investigate to what extent do EU citizens identify with Europe and the EU project, whether European regions have different patterns and level of identification and what, if any, is the role of socio-economic variables. [...]the group of papers addressing the formation of EU identity, the paper by Giovanni Perucca, When Country Matters More than Europe: What Implications for the Future of the EU? studies the determinants of the imbalance between the identification of a citizen's with her/his country, on the one hand, and with Europe on the other. The results presented, based on a panel data model using data from five Eurobarometer survey studies conducted between 2014 and 2017, suggest that individuals with lower education and income, and those living in the lagging-behind regions of the EU, are more likely to identify more with their own country than with Europe. [...]the paper supports the hypothesis that unequal distribution (among individuals and regions) of the benefits from EU integration is a determinant worth considering of the emerging antagonism between European and national identity.