EU as a normative power - Narratives of Charles Michel on Enlargement in the context of the Russia's Invasion in Ukraine

Although the Ukrainian crisis started in 2014, it has turned into a global one due to the attacks of the Russian army on the capital in February 2022. The objective of the paper is to analyse the narratives of the President of the European Council on EU enlargement process to Western Balkans in the context of the war in Ukraine. The research question is materialized in the following statement: how did Charles Michel’s narratives regarding Ukraine evolve in the new geopolitical context? We shall focus also on some discourse features with direct reference to content (themes), language (vocabulary, grammar, linguistic and rhetorical mechanisms). As for the research methods we have use a cross-sectional design - based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis from the first day of invasion 24 February 2022 up to December 2023.