Abstract Academics and Journalists have blamed the media for reproducing an old worldview of Eastern Europe as it was back in the days of the Iron Curtain. After a two month trip in Eastern Europe writing articles for Berlingske, we asked ourselves if the Danish media actually maintained a stereotypical image of the Eastern countries. Thus, the thesis investigates how the three national newspapers; Berlingske, Jyllands-Posten and Politiken; ‘frame’ the six new EU Member States Croatia, Poland , Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary , in the period 1-1-2012 – 31-12-2013. Furthermore it discusses how the newspapers' coverage could be evaluated in a democratic perspective in relation to a European public sphere. We have found that the countries are covered very individual, quantitatively and qualitatively and that all of the countries – expect Hungary – are covered both positively and negatively. Therefore, we cannot speak about a ruling Eastern Europe-frame or stereotype. However, we have analyzed a certain amount of negative frames that are reproduced in the coverage of the individual countries, which may help to reproduce a negative image of Eastern Europe. Most prominent is Hungary, which have been covered as an undemocratic country and it’s leader as a dictator. Romania and Poland are portrayed as immigrant threats from the East and Poland itself as a “climate-villian”. We have also found that the coverage of the countries are too weak or biased to play an important part in order to give the readers enough information to take part in a European public sphere.