VALERIU FRUNZARU, M D LINA BO AN, CONSTANTIN SCHIFIRNE , Setting the Public Agenda on the European Union: the 2009 Elections for the European Parliament in Romania

This article deals with the media construction of the Europeanization theme in the Romanian context, starting from the theories related to agenda setting and from the studies which were conducted in this respect in older EU member states. We set out to find out, from content analysis, which are the European themes that are most visible in the electoral debates and in news reports, which is their share of the whole range of themes under discussion, whether there are differences between news bulletins broadcast by the public television station and those broadcast by private television stations, and which is the prominence of news reports related to the EU.