ABSTRACT
The aftermath of the outbreak of the Euro crisis revealed tensions between European governments and people not seen for a long time in the history of the European Union. This research traces the pattern of different national perceptions of the Euro crisis as presented by leading newspapers of six Euro countries. Quantitative diversity measures are applied to highlight and visualise different national perceptions of the roots of the Euro crisis, institutions deemed to be responsible to act and specific short term and strategic long-term responses to solve the crisis. As a result significant cleavages are revealed between the narratives of the big northern countries France, Germany and the UK and smaller ones between the crisis countries Greece, Italy and Spain but still with remarkable differences. We discuss and find indications that these national perceptions were and still are relevant for the national policies when coping with the crisis.
