Educating citizens to the EU: How policies and communication strategies are implemented in Italy

How to reinforce relationships between European institutions and citizens? Which actions should be carried out to promote European communication? Th ese are the main questions our article intends to respond to, examining the most signifi cant steps that involved the European Union’s communication policies up to the 2014 European Parliament elections. Among the crucial matters of this paper, we focus on the Italian context about the necessity to realize a strategy of integrated communication able to involve European Institutions altogether with national and local ones, and to make citizens knowledgeable about the European Union’s policies.