The EU Crisis and European Identities in the Netherlands: Analysing representations of the EU in the Dutch press in 2005 and 2012
2015
Abstract
The chapter focuses on the impact of the economic crisis on the development of European identity discourse in the Netherland, focusing on the way group identities are represented in the coverage of the EU by Dutch newspapers before and after the Eurozone crisis, in 2005 and 2012. The analysis looks at the different identities which the Netherlands is represented as having in the context of the EU, using a data sample of articles from 2005 and 2012 selected from two main Dutch daily newspapers, the Telegraaf and NRC Handelsblad, one popular and one more elite newspaper respectively.
More specifically, it makes an inquiry into the differencies between the two newspapers and dis/continuities in time.