Towards an ever stronger politicization? How members of the European Parliament deal with values in social networks

Since the 2000s, reference to ‘values’ has become a key topic in legitimation and politicization of European Union (EU). This article studies which extent how members Parliament (MEPs) mobilize values their Facebook communication whether it contributes – understood as polarization discourse.Our findings show that references are minor MEPs’ discourse. Differences visible along national party lines according issues at stake. However, no clear patterns emerge relate specific value narratives stable coalition- or conflict-lines. Empirically, analyses posts by MEPs four nationalities (France, Italy, Poland Hungary) pre- post-electoral times (March 2019 March 2020). Theoretically, literature on EU ; use social networks.