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The Introduction to this volume provides a brief overview of the political context and media landscape surrounding the 2019 EU election. The outcome of the ensuring campaign is considered along with interpretations of how it was conducted. Furthermore, this chapter summarises some of the previous research on EU elections, with a focus on campaign studies, and features synposes of every chapter in the collection and commentary on their main findings. The closing section reflects on whether the 2019 election campaign signals a move towards the embracing of a European public sphere or, at the very least, a discernible movement in this direction.
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Johansson, B., Novelli, E., Wring, D. (2022). Introduction: A Campaign (More or Less) About the European Union. In: Novelli, E., Johansson, B., Wring, D. (eds) The 2019 European Electoral Campaign. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98993-4_1
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