The EU Crisis and European Identities in the Netherlands: Analysing representations of the EU in the Dutch press in 2005 and 2012

• Thesis title in English: The EU Crisis and European Identities in the Netherlands: Analysing representations of the EU in the Dutch press in 2005 and 2012
• Key words: Press discourse; EU crisis; European Identities; Netherlands;EU
• English key words: Press discourse; EU crisis;European Identities; Netherlands;EU
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2013/2014
• Thesis type: diploma thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of General History (21-USD)
• Supervisor: Mgr. Jiří Janáč, Ph.D.
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• Date of registration: 10.05.2014
• Date of assignment: 10.05.2014
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 25.05.2015
• Date and time of defence: 24.06.2015 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 25.05.2015
• Date of proceeded defence: 24.06.2015
• Submitted/finalized: committed by worker on behalf on and finalized
• Opponents: Péter Erdösi

Guidelines

In the past years, EU-skepticism and nationalist tendencies have been rising throughout the EU. This has been partly blamed on the crisis that hit the EU in 2009 and that is still affecting the area. In order to better understand these tendencies as well as the more general representations of the EU in its member states, this thesis will compare the way the EU is represented in newspapers, taking two member states as case studies. These case studies will be the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, both ‘small countries’ that are reliant on export and trade, but with a very different position and history within the EU. The main difference between the countries with regards to the EU economic crisis is the fact that the Netherlands is in the Eurozone while the Czech Republic has remained outside of this. In this thesis, articles that mention the EU from before and after the crisis in a popular newspaper in each country will be compared. After this, a comparison will be made between the developments in discourse in both countries. In this final comparison, an attempt will be made to see if the way the EU is represented in the two case studies has diverged or converged throughout the analyzed time period. This will hopefully provide some more insight into the context of the current political and social attitudes towards the EU and the way that these attitudes develop either similarly or differently inside and outside the EMU.

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