This article investigates media representations of the European financial crisis in Greece and Italy. We study the Euro crisis as an ‘emergency situation’ with domino effects, where media played a central role in shaping communication practices at the national level as well as between the two countries. Drawing upon vertical and horizontal dynamics of Europeanization, we map the convergences and divergences in media discourses that surround the period 2011–2015. In doing so, we elaborate a qualitative analysis of newspaper articles focusing, in particular, on the themes of austerity and the fragmentation of Europe. Our argument suggests that national public spheres in times of transnational crisis become increasingly nationalized; yet under certain circumstances such as when the supranational infrastructure is the target of blame, they converge, opening the path toward a transnational discursive dialogue.

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紧缩与分裂：希腊和意大利媒体话语的欧洲化动力

本文调查了希腊和意大利对欧洲金融危机的媒体报道。我们将欧元危机视为具有多米诺骨牌效应的“紧急情况”，在这种情况下，媒体在塑造国家层面以及两国之间的交流实践中发挥着核心作用。利用欧洲化的纵向和横向动态，我们绘制了围绕2011-2015年时期的媒体报道的趋​​同与分歧。为此，我们对报纸文章进行了定性分析，特别是紧缩政策和欧洲分裂的主题。我们的论点表明，跨国危机时期的国家公共领域变得越来越国有化；但是在某些情况下，例如当超国家的基础设施成为目标时，它们会融合在一起，