Weaponising the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR)

Coțofană, Alexandra

doi:10.4324/9781003032793-21

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“…Figure 1 provides a timeline referring to the year 2022 and indicates the four stages that we analysed, as well as relevant milestones for each of the phases. Due to AUR's masterful use of Facebook to maximise its reach for success among the public, through its content and that of its leader, George Simion (Coțofană, 2023;Doiciar & Crețan, 2021), the media discourse of AUR was analysed based on a corpus formed from both Facebook pages (see Supplementary Material). Their posts consisted of text, photo, and video content that was structured into eight documents (referenced in the analysis as AUR1, GS1, etc., corresponding to each phase in the timeline and each actor analysed), further coded and analysed using ATLAS.ti.…”

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Measuring Receptivity to Eurosceptic Media Discourses in the Vicinity of War: Evidence from Romania

Stoica,

Voina

2023

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Ever since its accession to the EU, Romania was considered an exceptional case among member states, given the unwavering high levels of popular support for the EU. However, the most recent elections held in Romania brought about the unexpected emergence of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a far-right populist party that strongly opposes the European project, which it accuses of resembling “a harmful hegemony.” The war in Ukraine represented another chance for AUR to bash the EU for its reaction in supporting Ukraine. The current article examines the degree to which anti-EU appeals of AUR influence Eurosceptic attitudes in Romania. In doing so, the present research pursues two distinct, but complementary goals. The first is to perform a content analysis of Eurosceptic narratives disseminated by AUR through its main social media channels since the start of the war. The second goal is then, employing four logistic regression models and using unique data collected through an online interactive survey, to test which of these narratives matter the most in shaping Eurosceptic attitudes. The article allows us to develop a nuanced understanding of what triggered a change of heart in a significant part of the Romanian electorate vis-à-vis the EU and the influence of Eurosceptic media discourse in this sense.

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confidence: 99%