Définition en discours de l’idéal-type eurorégional: consensus et zones d’ombre autour d’une politique expérimentale

The article examines the discursive construction of emerging Euroregions in Europe. By analyzing the discourse produced by institutions, economic actors and media, we reconstruct the definition of the Euroregional project from various enunciative positions and irrespective of the languages or the geographical location of Euroregions. On one hand, the results show characteristic metaphors of the European political discourse (construction, experimentation, body) that introduce the imagination of a territorial continuum in Europe. On the other hand, the results show some gray areas (divisions, approximations, dispersions, competition) that make the definition of the Euroregional project blurred and difficult to understand for the European citizen. The analysis is based on a genuine multilingual corpus to detect regularities relative to the Euroregional discourse. It mobilizes simple but verifiable textometric results that serve as benchmarks for qualitative analysis.