ABSTRACT
Within the diversified media landscape of Europe, mass media attention given to the European integration process is still quite unequally distributed. The prospects for the development of a European public sphere depend on the building of organisational capacities and degrees of specialisation as a guarantee of regular news coverage of the European Union. So far, this kind of know-how has been built only by specific media segments, principally by the quality press and by public broadcasting.1 The selective attention to European integration obviously creates a biased European space of public communication. In practice (though not in principle), it implies a limited access of only higher-educated publics that develop a special interest in following the particular kinds of debate that accompany European decision-making processes.
