Introduction: the national meaning of Europe / Mikael af Malmborg and Bo Str๊ath -- Irony of symbolic reciprocities : the Greek meaning of 'Europe' as a historical inversion of the European meaning of 'Greece' / Constantine Tsoukalas -- Dual appeal of 'Europe' in Italy / Mikael af Malmborg -- 'Europeanism' versus 'Africanism' : 'Europe' as a symbol of modernity and democratic renewal in Spain / Pablo Jโauregui -- Us or them? The meaning of Europe in British political discourse / Piers Ludlow -- Swedish demarcation to Europe / Bo Str๊ath -- On the brink or in-between? The conception of Europe in Finnish indentity / Henrik Meinander -- Europe's Eastern outpost? The meanings of Europe' in Baltic discourses / Klas-G่oran Karlsson -- From the USSR to Gorbachev to Putin : Perestroika as a failed excursion from 'the West' to 'Europe' in Russian discourse / Iver B. Neumann -- Complex of an unwanted child : the meanings of Europe in Polish discourse / Barbara T่ornquist-Plewa -- Czech discourse on Europe, 1848-1948 / Miroslav Hroch -- A.E.I.O.U. : Austria Europae Imago, Onus, Unio? / Gilbert Weiss -- Continuities and changes of Europe in German national identity / Willfried Spohn -- Meanings of Europe in French national discourse : a French Europe or an Europeanized France? / Robert Frank