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

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