Muriel Cathérine Pluschke is a research assistant, PhD student and lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. She is working on her PhD project on the subject of “Top-down und bottom-up Dynamiken europäischer Öffentlichkeit im Lokalen” (Top-down and bottom-up dynamics of a European public sphere in the Local). Her research interests focus on the European Union and European Integration, the building of a European Public Sphere, (local) Journalism as well as Democracy. Muriel C. Pluschke holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics and Economics from Bielefeld University and a Master's degree in “Intercultural Communication and European Studies” from Fulda University of Applied Sciences.

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