Pan-European debate in Brussels
Illegal immigration, waste of food and public liberties are topics which are playing an important role in the EU – and also in the daily life of many people. But too often, politicians avoid talking about them. On the 12th of November the EU-Parliamentarians, students from all over Europe and journalists from Euranet will debate about these topics, broadcast live online and on air.
Euranet, the EUropean RAdio NETwork, has broadcasted news for more than six month now. To introduce this work to a wider range of people, the Euranet team is organising a debate in ten languages on the 12th of November 2008 at the European Parliament.
Debate with leading officials
The main topic of the debate will be about the troubled relationship between the European Union and its citizens. The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, and other leading EU officials will join in the debate with students from various member states. The central question revolves around how the European Union can become more concrete for Europeans. Because for many Europeans, Europe is just a vague idea instead of a real institution with important regulatory functions. The debate will raise a range of themes, from immigration and climate change to intercultural dialogue and public liberties.
The Euranet University Circle
Journalism and language students will be putting their questions to the invited EU-experts. The students come from the Euranet University Circle which includes the universities of Cambridge (UK), Aachen (Germany), Ecole Nationale d’Administration (France), IHECS (Belgium), Roosevelt Academy (the Netherlands), Babes-Bolyai (Romania) and the radio school Eur@dionantes (France). The lively debate will take place on 12th of November 2008 between 5 and 8 p.m. in the central auditorium of the European Parliament. To bring the debate to all Euranet users, the complete discussions will be broadcastes? live on the Euranet site and parts of them on radio as well.
This is Euranet
Euranet is a new initiative in the European media scene, which provides information about events in Europe from a trans-national perspective. Euranet began broadcasting in April 2008 in ten languages. Now the interactive web page of the network will be introduced. There are also new features on the Euranet website (...more) . The site will provide access to multimedia dossiers about major European issues, which will be produced in cooperation with the partner stations and available in the nine Euranet languages. The Euranet Online Community (...more) will be supported by the Euranet University Circle. The online forum will allow users to express and exchange their ideas as well as photos, videos and articles about European issues.
Event-Programme (5 pm Brussels Time (CET))
The following programme will take place in the European Parliament and broadcast on the Euranet (...more) homepage.
16:30 MUSIC by CAMAXE (...more)
17:00 INTRODUCTION
- Erlends Calabuig (CEO Euranet/RFI) and Petra Kohnen (CEO Euranet/DW)
- Presentation: Jean-Michel Bos (French), Vanessa Mock (English)
17:10 EUROPE CONCRET
- Toward a Europe of citizens (FRENCH)
- Questions from students (Eur@dioNantes )
17:15 Alain Lamassoure (French politician and Member of the European Parliament interviewed by Deutsche Welle)
17:20 INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
- Is multilinguism a chance or a handicap for the EU? (Greek-English)
- Questions from students (University of Cambridge)
17:25 Katerina Batzeli (President of the Committee on Culture and Education; interviewed by Skai Radio)
17:30 IMMIGRATION
- How to combat illegal immigration? (Spanish)
- Vox pop from Spain
17:35 José Ignacio Salafranca Sanchez-Neyra (member of the European Parliament committee on foreign affairs; interviewed by Punto Radio)
- Stepping up the fight against undeclared work (French)
- Questions from students (IHECS)
17:45 Gérard Deprez (on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets; interviewed by RTBF)
MUSIC by CAMAXE
17:50 The Blue Card Directive
- Vox pop from Germany (German)
17:55 Manfred Weber (on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; interviewed by DW)
- Migration and labour market (Polish)
- Vox pop from Poland
18:00 Janusz Lewandowski (interviewed by Polskie Radio)
Interview with Hans-Gert Pöttering
18:10 Financial Crisis
- Toward a Europe of citizens (French)
- Questions from students (IHECS)
18:20 Catherine Guy-Quint (interviewed by RFI)
MUSIC by CAMAXE
18:25 PUBLIC LIBERTIES
- Biometric controls (Portugese)
- Vox-pop from Portugal
18:30 Carlos Coelho (Portuguese Member of the EP; interviewed by Radio Europa Lisboa)
- Protection of personal data (Romanian)
- Questions from students (Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj)
18:40 Renate Weber (Member of the EP; interviewed by Radio Romania International)
18:45 ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- Renewable energies, biofuel (English)
- Questions from students (Roosevelt Academy)
18:50 Katalijne Maria Buitenweg (Dutch member of the EP; interviewed by Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- Reduce the CO2 emissions (Slovenian)
19:00 Romana Jordan Cizerl (sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy interviewed by Radio Slovenia International)
- Cars average CO2 emissions (Czech-English)
- Questions from students (ENA)
19:10 Miroslav Ouzký (Czech Member of the EP; interviewed by Czech Radio)
MUSIC by CAMAXE
19:15 REDUCE THE FOOD WASTAGE
- What can we do to reduce the food wastage in Europe? (German)
- Questions from students (University of Aachen)
19:20 Jutta Haug (sits on the EP’s Committee on Budgets; interviewed by DW)
19:30 CULTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE REALITY OF POLITICS
19:30 Helga Trüpel (German member of the EP; interviewed by DW)
