THE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL AND REFUGEE/IMMIGRANT CRISES IN THE PRESS: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF THE GREEK AND GERMAN PUBLIC SPHERES

Having as theoretical basis Personal Cooling the notion of the public sphere and its manifestations within the EU, the current paper seeks to trace similarities and differences in the public discourse devel- oped in German and Greek news si tes, regarding the fina ncial and refugee crises.Our quantitative content analysis shows that there are both