The role of the mass media in the construction of Europe

EAPC President, Bo Krogvig, was one of the speakers at the seminar “The Role of the Mass Media in the Construction of Europe” organized by the Basque Government, with the collaboration of the European Commission and the Basque Network of European Information (REVIE) which was supposed to open a discussion between representatives of institutions, mass media, social organizations and citizenry in general, with regard to the role of the media in the construction of Europe. The seminar was held in the Auditorium at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

The Organization was able to count on the participation of 17 personalities, including, among others, Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission, Jeremy Rifkin, President of the 'Foundation on Economic Trends', Claus Sørensen, Director-General of Directorate General Communication of the European Commission, Stefano Rolando, former Director of the Information Department of the Presidency for the Italian Council of Ministers, and Cristophe Midol-Monnet, editor of Euronews.

The Seminar was attended by about 250 persons, fundamentally from the institutional and university field, as well as numerous professionals from the mass media.

The program for the Seminar was organized around an inaugural keynote speech, made by Jeremy Rifkin, and 2 panels. The first panel, entitled “European Union communication policy”, analyzed the way in which European institutions inform and communicate about their activities and projects. The second panel, “Civil society, press and public opinion in the future of the EU”, on its part, focused on the debate on how civil society sees the future of the Union and what role the media should play in communicating the European idea to society.

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