Euro Crisis in the Press

Katarzyna Sobieraj is based in Brussels and works at the European Commission. She completed her PhD at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and MA at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She was an associate in the international research project ‘The Euro Crisis, Media Coverage, and Perceptions of Europe within the EU’ at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Approaching Discourse Analysis of the Euro Crisis.- 3. Delineating the Boundaries of Discourse.- 4. Dimensions of the Euro Crisis.- 5. Social Actors in the Euro Crisis.- 6. Policy Legitimization in the Euro Crisis Discourse.- 7. Metaphors of the Euro Crisis.- 8. Conclusions.