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Conciliation Committee
18.03.2010
10:00
Brussels-Based Journalists: An Endangered Species?
International Press Association
Résidence Palace, Bloc C - Office 2.257 (2nd floor), Rue de la Loi 155,
1040 Bruxelles
Phone: +32 2 235 21 11
Fax: +32 2 235 21 10
Email: api.press@scarlet.be
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Journalists @ Your Service
Résidence Palace, 155 rue de la Loi, Bloc C
1040 Brussels
Phone: +32 2 235 22 12
Fax: +32 2 235 22 19
Email: info@brusselsreporter.org
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10:00
Brussels-Based Journalists: An Endangered Species?
International Press Association
Résidence Palace, Bloc C - Office 2.257 (2nd floor), Rue de la Loi 155,
1040 Bruxelles
Phone: +32 2 235 21 11
Fax: +32 2 235 21 10
Email: api.press@scarlet.be
Link to the organizer
Journalists @ Your Service
Résidence Palace, 155 rue de la Loi, Bloc C
1040 Brussels
Phone: +32 2 235 22 12
Fax: +32 2 235 22 19
Email: info@brusselsreporter.org
Link to the organizer
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Meeting / Hearing / Briefing
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Media & Communication
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International Press Centre, Residence Palace, Polak room
155 rue de la Loi/Wetstraat
1040 Brussels
155 rue de la Loi/Wetstraat
1040 Brussels
Location of event
After 50 years of continuous increase, the number of EU accredited media has begun to decline. What does this mean for you as a journalist? What are the implications for media diversity and informed reporting? Personally or professionally, we all have views on this. Is the trend inevitable? Can we try to make our work better understood and appreciated?.
Members of the Association and journalists accredited in Brussels are invited to take part in a debate on the future of journalism and the working conditions of journalists based in Brussels organised within the framework of an Extraordinary General Meeting Called by the API/ IPA Council.
Concerned by the direction taken by the communication and information policies of the European institutions and in particular by the European Commission whose negative effects on the presence of the media in Brussels have been reinforced by the economic crisis, the IPA considers an urgent taking stock and a broad debate are imperative.
With this aim, it has been decided by the representatives of foreign journalist based in Brussels to organise this meeting in order to consult and to help formulate their view. Resolutions will be submitted to the meeting to this end. A substantial participation of journalists will be appreciated by them.
The meeting should also enable focussing on the subject of problems concerning the residence conditions of foreign journalists in the host country. Despite the numerous presence of journalists from other European countries, fiscal and social security problems have never found a satisfactory solution. The absence of clarification despite the repeated requests by journalists, has often given rise to barely understandable measures and attitudes by the officials of the relevant administrations.
In other respects the absence of consistency among the arrangements outdated by the evolution taking place within the framework of the European construction has as a consequence given rise to numerous, useless measures for new journalists. API/IPA considers that on this level also taking stock by Belgium is also essential, “host country” of the institutions.
Members of the Association and journalists accredited in Brussels are invited to take part in a debate on the future of journalism and the working conditions of journalists based in Brussels organised within the framework of an Extraordinary General Meeting Called by the API/ IPA Council.
Concerned by the direction taken by the communication and information policies of the European institutions and in particular by the European Commission whose negative effects on the presence of the media in Brussels have been reinforced by the economic crisis, the IPA considers an urgent taking stock and a broad debate are imperative.
With this aim, it has been decided by the representatives of foreign journalist based in Brussels to organise this meeting in order to consult and to help formulate their view. Resolutions will be submitted to the meeting to this end. A substantial participation of journalists will be appreciated by them.
The meeting should also enable focussing on the subject of problems concerning the residence conditions of foreign journalists in the host country. Despite the numerous presence of journalists from other European countries, fiscal and social security problems have never found a satisfactory solution. The absence of clarification despite the repeated requests by journalists, has often given rise to barely understandable measures and attitudes by the officials of the relevant administrations.
In other respects the absence of consistency among the arrangements outdated by the evolution taking place within the framework of the European construction has as a consequence given rise to numerous, useless measures for new journalists. API/IPA considers that on this level also taking stock by Belgium is also essential, “host country” of the institutions.
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