Closing convention on the Europe is MORE than you think Award in Strasbourg (France)

The Europe is MORE than you think Award, organised jointly by the Council of Europe and the European Youth Press, invited young journalists from all over the continent to look beyond the headlines and capture the Europe which, all too often, goes unnoticed. The four main winners have been invited to attend the January 2010 session of the Parliamentary Assembly to see the workings of Europe’s oldest intergovernmental organisation and report on the event.

The articles

• A week at the Council of Europe

  15.02.2010

  Sticking out amidst the dark cloud of Strasbourgian rain and fog is a huge building. Decorated with a handful of European flags, it is clear to a passer-by that it is an official European institution. Known as the ...[more]

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• Council of Europe - Quo Vadis?

  15.02.2010

  After 'harvesting the fruit' of more than a half century of cooperation, the 2010s start with a handful of problems, ranging from the Middle East peace process' slow progress, to the very well known recent breakdown of the global...

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• 18 Billion Dollars against a fake-pandemic

  15.02.2010

  In his 13 years working in the audio-visual department of the Council of Europe, Alun Drake said there have only been two really exciting cases. One was back in 2006 when it became known that the CIA were operating more than 1,...

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• Those who will forget their past are condemned to live it again

  15.02.2010

  Right on very day that the world had circled out to remember all the victims of the Fascism and nazis regimes, on the very day that European institutions were commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation, around...

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