This symposium addresses the geographical imaginations of EUrope’s encounters with its’Other(s)’/ The notation ‘EUrope’ refers to the European Union (EU) and the many dimensions of the process of Europeanization associated with this project of regional integration. The term ‘geographical imaginations’ describes the ways in which we spatially represent and “make sense of ‘places both near and far. Manifestly, such ‘imaginations’ have tangible political and geopolitical impacts through their contribution to shaping and proscribing EU policies and identities, as well as influencing both the nature and the depth of the relations between EUrope and its ‘Other(s)’. The envisioned papers examine specific Others of the EU to explore the variety and the importance of such negotiations of the cultural and political boundaries of EUrope.