The starting point of this book is the communication problem of the EU: European integration has remained an elite project, which many citizens approach with misunderstanding. A remedy is expected from the development of a European public sphere. Therefore, promoting the genesis of such a communication forum between citizens and the EU is an explicit goal of the EU Commission. It views communication as the subject of a policy that needs to be developed anew. European public sphere through public relations? Michael Brüggemann contrasts the claims and realities of the new information policy of the EU Commission and explains the discrepancy. He develops a meaningful concept of information policy and bridges it to normatively ambitious models of publicness.