This paper aims to investigate the specificity of contemporary cosmopolitan discourse in British and French online public spaces and particularly the interaction between European and global identities displayed in this discourse. Being a part of a larger research, the pa- per contributes to understanding of the “conceptual conflicts”, namely public debates fo- cusing on a complex political concept such as, in this case, “citizenship (of the world)”. The research is based on a discourse analysis methodology combining the theoretical basis of French discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Studies as well as analytical categories from the Contrastive Discourse Analysis by von Münchow (2016, 2017). It is argued that while promoting cosmopolitan ideas, contemporary European public discourse remains an example of the realisation of the Eurocentric, exclusive character of cosmopolitan iden- tification. This more or less conscious assimilation of global and European identities may, however, be challenged in rare cases, as shown through the analysis of a reflexive contri- bution within the debate.