Producing Public Opinion within the Space of the EU

This paper is a theoretical contribition to the question of the role of EU citizenship policies in shaping the preferences of citizens on the process of European integration. EU citizenship policies are here interpreted as a set of legal and political dynamics that produce a differential political space at the scale of the Union. Starting from this theoretical model, the paper develops some research hypothesis on the case of the Greek referendum held on July, 5, 2015, on the economic aid plan proposed by the European Commission to the government of Alexis Tsipras.