(English) The European Parliament’s 50-th Anniversary – as seen by the mass media

The NMSP Member of the European Parliament Bilyana Raeva has been the lecturer to the conference „The European Parliament’s 50th Anniversary – as seen by the mass media“, organized by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency in partnership with the Bulgarian National Television. The topic of the lecture that she delivered: „The European language used by the mass media. How is the European politician addressing the mass media.“ provoked Cypress and the Romanian participants’ interesting questions during the discussions.

The three-day conference (October 12 -15) has been held under the patronage of the Bulgarian Parliament Chairman George Pirinski.The meeting is organized in the year when the 50-th Anniversary is celebrated, and it aims to popularize its activities in Southeast Europe. For this purpose, the organizers have planned also a five months information campaign to be held not only in Bulgaria, but also in all the Member States and candidates in the region.

This Forum is the only project for Bulgaria, which has been approved by the EP for 2008.

The conference participants have been politicians, European Parliament representatives, delegates from the mass media from Southeast European countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Slovenia, Cypress, Romania, as well as leading Bulgarian journalists.