Don't put the blame on me: how different countries blamed different actors for the Eurozone crisis

Eight years since the Eurozone crisis began, there is still no agreement on a comprehensive set of reforms to the governance of the Eurozone. But why has such agreement been so hard to reach? Henrik Müller, Giuseppe Porcaro and Gerret von Nordheim suggest that part of the reason lies in the different narratives that have been expressed in each Eurozone state. Using data from a study of newspaper coverage in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, they highlight that coverage of the crisis, and particularly which set of actors were to blame for it, has varied substantially across different countries.