期刊名称：The Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations = Revista Română de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice
印刷版ISSN：1454-8100
出版年度：2013
卷号：15
期号：1
出版社：National School of Political Studies and Public Administration
摘要：In this paper, we analyze official speeches delivered by three of EU’s high rank officials, namely the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Parliament and the President of the European Council, and by the two political leaders of the Union, the French President and the German Chan- cellor. All the examined speeches focused on the 2014-2020 budget and were delivered before the European Council held on February 7-8, 2013, excepting Angela Merkel’s speech, which was delivered at the end of February, in the German Parliament. We used textual analysis to investigate the themes and the meaning cat- egories that appear in the text and how these themes and categories are discursively constructed in order to convey a particular view on the budget and on EU’s future prospects as a viable and trustful project. In our analysis, we started from the premise that there is a gap between discourse and action within the EU, and that this credibility gap can easily add to the already acknowledged economic, financial and political caus- es of the EU’s decline. Unfortunately, a credibility gap might produce more damage more rapidly as it usu- ally generates popular frustration and exhaustion.
关键词：European solidarity; Euro crisis; multiannual financial framework; EU-related discourse.
