Cosmopolitanism rests on the basic idea that humans’ moral, political and/or legal standing should not depend on their cultural and national membership, but reflect their moral status as human beings. It is a political idea(l), which has been presented in different versions that differ in the moral and political principles, norms or values they refer to. Several of its versions, especially those presented recently, have considered the EU and European political culture to foreshadow a global cosmopolitan polity or, at least, to offer an exemplary case of cosmopolitanism in the making. This report proposes an analytical framework to approach various normative models of cosmopolitanism and European cosmopolitanism