Newropeans Magazine:
"Paying Europe’s way into the news
Written by Daniela Schwarzer
Wednesday, 19 April 2006
Image EDITO - Before Easter, several articles discussed the European Parliament’s subsidies to journalists travelling across the European Union to cover EU affairs.[1] Discovering this practice dating back to the 1980s could have made another odd ‘EU scandal’ that many national commentators driven by latent EU-scepticism based on little factual knowledge and even less practical EU experience may have been waiting for.
A pity for them that they missed the occasion as the Italian elections and the floods in Central and Eastern Europe filled the very restricted places for European news in the national media the fortnight before Easter. The bad guy could so easily have been identified in this play: a monstrous and uncontrollable European Parliament wasting money on bribing innocent journalists into pro-EU stories fooling the citizens throughout the EU.
This potential tabloid drama would not be worth pondering further. But there are indeed issues behind the story dug up by the Herald Tribune."
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