European media.

[tuftabis]

Just go there if you don't have the time to read the editoral.

presseurop.eu/en


Editorial

"The language of European is translation," Umberto Eco once said. This linguistic and cultural energy has given rise to one of the world’s most creative civilisations, and also to innumerable conflicts. Today, where 500 million Europeans live (not without occasional misgivings) in an increasingly close-knit Union, language is no longer a divisive factor. But it’s difficult to get to know one another when you have to juggle with twenty-three official languages – not forgetting the regional tongues that seek recognition in Brussels.

For news and entertainment, these 500 million Europeans watch satellite TV, listen to the radio via internet, read newspapers in print and online versions. Distance is no longer a barrier. But wherever they are on the continent, most turn to media in their own language, or in one or two others. "When it comes to getting information about Europe there isn’t a single transnational medium that Europeans can turn to," said recently Marc Leijendekker, European editor for the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad. "There is no European newspaper that is read by Italians and Czechs alike, no single website where both Spaniards and Swedes go to get their news, no TV news programme that is broadcast to every living room in Europe at 8 p.m."

Our ambition which, we hope, is shared by many, is make this dream a reality. Launched at the behest of the European Commission, and managed by four magazines with experience in the international press - (Courrier international in France, Internazionale in Italy, Forum in Poland and Courrier internacional in Portugal), Presseurop’s team of journalists, hailing from the four corners of the Union, enjoys complete editorial independence. Every day, we will choose, translate into ten languages, and engage with the freshest and most original writing there is about Europe in the European and international press. Not an institutional Europe, already thoroughly covered, but a Europe in which men and women live. Welcome to Presseurop.


Polish version of Presseurope magazine presseurop.eu/pl

Dutch one presseurop.eu/nl

I do hope Pieter as a journalist will share with us his opinion about this new journal after enough edtions to judge appear ;D ;D


P.S. Polish weekly 'Forum' iis among the magazines I read regularly since many years.

[pieter]

Tufta,

It was fun to read the Dutch version, and to compare it with the Polish edition.
In the Polish edition I did not saw the article about the abuse in the Irish
Catholic church. The articles are pleasent to read, witty sometimes and a nice
collection of European news. But not a final replacement of the only real
Dutch quality newspaper, my newspaper the NRC Handelsblad.

I like the deeper, long insight stories, the articles, essays, opinions
and the sections in it of my newspaper, with the culture section
(culture supplement; whih deals with art, theatre, cinema, literature
and poetry, Boeken = Books; the literairy section next to the
cultural section, and the economical section).
Every day I read the foreign news and the Dutch news in my NRC,
and next to that I read the second quality newspaper of my country
(the centre-left) Volkskrant (Peoples paper) on my radio station and
the regional newspaper of my province, the Gelderlander, which has
a section with news of my city Arnhem.

www.nrc.nl/ (neutral, centrist National quality newspaper)
www.volkskrant.nl/ (from origin a Catholic newspaper which became secular leftwing liberal)
www.gelderlander.nl/ (non-confessional newspaper with Catholic roots too)

[pieter]

Reading newspapers and News releases is an important part of my job.
That is the first thing I do in the morning. You collect a file for a radio
interview. Most often local news, also collected from my own sources,
but also national news which I translate to local news.

[pieter]

Tufta,

PressEurop is interesting for a developped and sophisticated minority of Europeans who
really feel European, who are cosmopolitan and who are interested in other European
countries. But I think that most Europeans are National, regional or local oriented.

I will vote for a Cosmopolitan European party and the members of that party will be
interested in this European newspaper or News website. I will spread the word.
But I know a lot of Eurosceptic people from right and left too.

Pieter

[tuftabis]

Pieter, I agree, but let's see after several editions how they are doing. I find the initiative promising although right now it seems just another platform of European Commission in spite of the vows they are independent. I wish they would if they could at least in this degree of independence enabled by the situation where EC funds this new enterprise. And they are too 'sweet' !! - maybe that would change too. Look at the article from Zgorzelec/Gorlitz, for instance.

www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/3591-glourious-goerlitz

They correctly state the town is now repopulated by the Poles since a lot of Germans left westward, but they fail to mention such posters appeared in the town.

May 27, 2009 0:08:22 GMT -7 pieter said:

Tufta,

It was fun to read the Dutch version, and to compare it with the Polish edition.
In the Polish edition I did not saw the article about the abuse in the Irish
Catholic church.

Yes, it is there:

www.presseurop.eu/pl/content/article/8251-zle-wychowanie



Pieter, would you mind telling me what cosmopolitan party you're going to vote for?

[pieter]

May 27, 2009 11:35:49 GMT -7 tuftabis said:

Pieter, would you mind telling me what cosmopolitan party you're going to vote for?

I am doubful whether to vote for the left (social) liberal centrist D'66 (actually a progressive party which has a mix of centre-left and centre-right ideas) and the leftwing (liberal) GreenLeft party:

Groenlinks: www.youtube.com/groenlinks

D66:

Nationally and locally (regionally) I would never vote for these parties, because D66 is to unclear for me with their swinging from left to right and GreenLeft would be to left for me in the local and national sense. As a journalist I have witnessed and experianced that there is a big differance between the local/regional, National and European policies of the parties.

I will vote for these Cosmopolitan and Pro-European countries, because I am not Eurosceptic, believe in Solidarity between the European nations, believe in the European idea of the EU (peace, an European market which brought prosperity, European legistlation which works, European -Federal- democracy, European diplomacy, European militairy cooperation, an European education system - the Erasmus exchange program, European environmental protection, a European Green deal, an European safety structure -legal and police cooperation between the differant member states, and I believe in the Europe of Euregions and Independant Souvereign Nation states).

In the local and regional elections I vote for the party which represents my cities intrests and my province interests the best.
And that can be a Christian or more centre party like the
Dutch Social-democrats (Party of Labour).

Today I interviewed the Eurosceptic Socialist Party who is against the growth of Europe and the European commission which has a lack of democratic control in the eyes of the "conservative" and "Dutch Patriotic", "Classical Left" Socialist Party, which get's support of the Dutch workingclass, some of the Middle class and part of the Dutch left-intelligentsia. D66 and GreenLeft also receive a lot of support of the Left-intelligentsia. It was a nice interview, especially because I did not agree with the Socialist leader, but I kept being neutral (your duty as a journalist).



Pieter

P.S.- The other parties:

Dutch add to promote the European elections:


ChristenUnie


CDA (the Arnhem Christian democrat I interviewed for Radio Arnhem)

PvdA:


VVD:

[tuftabis]

Thank you.
With the use of www.euprofiler.eu/ I have quickly compared these parties between themselves and to Polish equivalents.
In Poland you would, theoretically, vote for SLD-UP or PDP. Unfortunately they are both postcommunist. It is Polish specificity that there is no leftist party that would not be postcommunist, a real shame. (UP of Ryszard Bugaj was a trial to establish one in the early 1990ties, but is now is one block with SLD, and Ryszard Bugaj himself is an advisor for the centre-right President of Poland).

I will vote for PO (we have European Parliament elections only) just as in general elections. This is a centre-right party. It's main opponent is PIS, which is pro-European too, but much closer to centre than PO. Both are for EU as a union of independent states, but they differ substantially in political methods used (and I much more prefer PO's methods, even though I am not at all delighted with how PO is doing...). The other difference between these two major parties is that PO, being more to the right than PiS, reaches out for undecided voters from the left side and those openly 'cosmopolitan' . While PiS reaches for those undecided or non-represented from the right and for those more national.

Even more to the centre than PIS is PSL, which is at the same time more pro-European than PO. BUt this is a peasants party which is not stable and only adjusts to the trends that give it the most chances.

On the other side of the proEU<--->EUsceptic scale we have Samoobrona, which is centre-left and UPR, Prawica RP, Libertas which are all more ore less centre-right.