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This paper provides some of the preliminary results concerning EuroSkyCompass; a cross-national research project with a multi-theoretical and multi-method approach that aims to study the system of representations related to the objects « Europe, eu and European States ». This study is in a diachronic perspective compared to previous cross-national research on this subject conducted by de Rosa from 1993-1994 (de Rosa, 1996, 2000 ; de Rosa and Mormino, 2000). Some of the most interesting results concerning eu enlargement were extrapolated from a larger set of results obtained from a sample of 1703 subjects resident in eight European nations (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) and one non-European country, Tunisia, as well as a number of students of Moroccan origin residing in France.