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The article presents information about the representation of ethnicity in domestic news in the European Union countries and the Netherlands. Portrayal is undoubtedly influential in the shaping of people's opinions about ethnic minorities, if only because most people do not have direct contact and exchange with ethnic minorities and thus rely on hearsay and the media as main sources for their knowledge about ethnic minority groups and issues. Although many media monitoring reports have assessed the position of ethnic minorities in the news, there are few whose scope goes beyond the national borders. Moreover, the existing single-country studies cannot be compared as they use different selection criteria, and the few cross-national studies that exist usually focus on a selected group of approximately six countries. The advantage of focusing on domestic news is that it avoids the methodological problem of dealing with groups of different origin, and minority v. majority status in domestic v. international news.

This article examines the metaphoric frames in the coverage of the Euro crisis in newspapers across five EU countries. Our quantitative frame analysis identified five dominant frames: war, construction, disease, natural disaster, and game. In all five countries, the Euro crisis as war turned out to be the most prominent news frame. Such framing uses martial, aggressive language to describe the European public sphere. This finding is not without importance, as newspapers play a key role in shaping the general public’s perception of the Euro crisis and by extension the European Union’s institutional elite and its (in)ability to cope with crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]