This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.

Emmanouil Takas is an instructor and postdoc researcher of Media, Political and Social psychology in the Department of Journalism and Media in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an instructor of communication at the Open University of Cyprus.

Sofia Iordanidou is an associate professor of Journalism and Communication at the Open University of Cyprus and the chairwoman of the Advanced Media Institute, Applied Research in Communication and Journalism.

NaelJebrilis an associate professor in the Media Studies Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

List of Figures and Tables; Introduction Emmanouil Takas, Sofia Iordanidou and NaelJebril; Chapter 1.  Conceptualising Crisis: Events, Crisis Processes and Collective Sense making Jamie Matthews; Chapter 2. A Reversed Narrative of Public Crisis: Xinhua's Framing of Medical Experts in COVID-19 Pandemic Yu Xiang; Chapter 3. Representations and Social Influence in Political Discourse in Times of Crisis Emmanouil Takas and GerasimosProdromitis; Chapter 4.    Fall of Circulation, Savage Oligopolisation and Downgrading of the Media: The Implications of Memoranda in the Greek Press Sofia Iordanidou and Leonidas Vatikiotis; Chapter 5. Elites versus the People? Tracing Populist Narrative through the Presentation of the Turkish Health Reform in Media Ays¿ecanKartal; Chapter 6. Disinformation and the Prespa Agreement: A Case Study LefterisKretsos and Valia Kaimaki; Chapter 7. Framing the Pandemic: Strategic Rhetoric in Political Elite Discourse during the COVID-19 Health Crisis Katerina Diamantaki and LemoniaMourka; Index