Regimes of Truth in the Communication and Reporting of the European Union Post-Truth, Post-Propaganda or Just…Propaganda?

The debate on the problems and future of the EU, both in the ‘anti-European’ and ‘pro-European’ camps, is characterized by the exclusive emphasis on ‘what might be true’ and not on the whole spectrum of reality. Thus, there is need to problematize the supposed ‘imminent threat’ of ‘post-truth’. Any discussion regarding the ‘post-truth challenge’ for today’s Europe in general cannot be productive if we do not take into account the developments associated with the characteristics of information management. There is a need to juxtapose the ‘post-truth’ of the post-modern and post-industrial communication environment with the modernist notion of propaganda, not only to acquire the adequate theoretical evidence in order to assess whether we are dealing with a new phenomenon (post-truth), a ‘new’ version of an ‘old’ phenomenon (postpropaganda), but also to identify similarities and differences in terms of their causes, characteristics and possible implications for the EU.