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i* Parts of this paper have been presented at the Second International Conference After
Communism. East and West under Scrutiny, 2-3 March 2012, Craiova, House of the
University under the title Anca Parmena Olimid, Struggle for Sacred After EU Integration:
What Church-State Relations Are or Are Not in Eastern Europe (A Media Coverage of
Religion and Nationhood in Balkan Orthodoxy). We took into account the date of EU
integration for the four countries: Greece (1981), Cyprus (2004), Romania and Bulgaria
(2007).
iii Ibidem, p.
597.
iv For a more detailed analysis on the particular situation of the churches in East and
Central Europe, see Mikls Tomka, Church, State and Society in Eastern Europe, The
Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington, The Council for Research in
Values and Philosophy, 2005, pp. 100-101.
v For a compared analysis on how general media practices affect reporting on migration
issues and migrants cultural identity see Ctlina Maria Georgescu, Stereotypes,
migrants and the media: an analysis of the Romanian press on migration in Revista de
tiine Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques, no. 29/ 2011, pp. 53-64.