Press Release: Communicating Europe: The European Commission and the Finnish Presidency to host a major conference on the EU, the media and new technologies

Key opinion formers from Europe’s media will be joined in Helsinki by Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström, for a stakeholders’ conference, to be held on 4 and 5 December 2006. Speaking ahead of the Conference, Ms Wallström said: ”We need to present EU affairs in a way that sparks more emotion. The EU does not usually affect people's lives in sensational ways that grab headlines. But it affects people's lives in important ways and they have a right to know about it. They also want to know how people in other EU countries see the same issues.”