German Christian Democrat MEPs, part of the European People’s Party, visited the European Newsroom (enr) in the Residence Palace in Brussels on October 25. The purpose of their visit was to acquaint themselves with the project and to see how Europe-wide cooperation in journalism works on the ground.
In the run-up to the 2024 EU elections, issues such as migration, the strengthening of internal border controls in the EU and Schengen, and the accession of new member states to the bloc are high on the agenda in the European Parliament. The European Newsroom (enr) spoke to the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.
A week ahead of the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, the enr organised a press briefing with MEPs Sabine Verheyen and Christel Schaldemose about the European Media Freedom Act (MFA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA). The topic of discussion was how they complement each other to promote media freedom, democratic participation and curb disinformation.
How to successfully inform audiences from countries with EU-candidate status about Brussels? This was only one of the many topics a delegation from the “EU Info Centre Belgrade” talked about with the European Newsroom (enr) on August 30.
The EU’s debt and deficit rule is one of the hottest topics in Brussels this year. It could dominate discussions in the EU in the second half of 2023. The enr spoke to the German Finance Minister Christian Lindner about Germany’s position, which calls for strict rules, and what is at stake if no consensus is achieved.
On June 6 – one year ahead of the next European Elections – the European Newsroom hosted the press briefing “ONE YEAR TO GO: THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS” which presented the European Parliament’s Spring Eurobarometer data at the offices of Belga New Agency.