In a recently published article 'Why not Turkey? Attitudes towards Turkish Membership in the EU among Citizens in 27 European Countries', Journal of Common Market Studies 2011, Jürgen Gerhards and Silke Hans described and explained the attitudes of citizens in the 27 member states of the EU...

The goal of this study is to find out whether the emergence of a European public sphere (EPS) contributes to EU support in its affective and evaluative dimensions. The EPS is conceptualized as an entity resting on Europeanized national public spheres. The media is seen as the most important...

For people from economically weak countries, one possible way of migration to the European Union is marriage with a EU‐citizen. This paper examines which factors lead to marriages between German men and women from countries which are less developed. Two hypotheses deduced from exchange theory...