Studying representations of the entity called Europe or of the object European Union is a key issue in political geography. If the diversity of methodological approaches and surveyed public can appear as an obstacle to any tentative of generalization, the articles in this special issue of the journal L'Espace politique dedicated to Europe seen from here and abroad show the richness of such studies both to understand the logic of actors (individual or institutional) to enter the social and political issues inherent in these representations.