One of the most striking consequences of the European sovereign debt crisis has been the scale and variety of mobilization by citizens and civil society groups against the crisis policies of authorities at national, EU and international levels. Drawing on Europeanisation research of social movements, the paper addresses the extent to which the Eurozone crisis and the established austerity measures contributed to the emergence of new patterns and repertoires of social contention to austerity measures in Spain and Greece. More specifically, whether social movement targets, participants and issue frames are exclusively national, European and transnational or combine all three dimensions. A focus on links, learning and collaboration among European groups, conceptions of collective responsibility and claims about solidarity is particularly important for analyzing the implications of the crisis for patterns of identification among movement participants. The study is based on data collected from national newspapers and social media during 2011-2012.
