A Full Address Book

At 5 p.m. a “round table debate” recorded by Radio Nantes took place in the Vox Box area. Six participants from the radio workshop “United We stand” met workshop participants from the four other media fields. They discussed about their experience at the EYMD so far, as well as their personal background, their plans and expectations for the next two days, as well as their opinion about the European Union.

 

A young journalist from Latvia explained how he had campaigned against Latvia joining the European Union. He felt that “the pressure of the government to join was so dominant, that there was no room for other opinions”. He pointed out that across and within the member states, there are those that profit, but also those that lose because of the European Union. “But now that we have joint, we have to make the most of it”, he added and he sounded a lot more enthusiastic when he talked about meeting other European journalists at the EYMD.

 

Everyone in the round agreed that having the possibility to work together with other young journalists from so many countries is above all “inspiring and giving hope”. The facilitator of the radio workshop André Feldhof had to think for a moment about what he will take home from the EYMD. “A full address book”, he concluded.

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