Europe and Me

The five films that are running for the 2024 LUX Audience Award are:  20,000 Species of Bees - Fallen Leaves - On the Adamant - Smoke Sauna Sisterhood - The Teachers’ Lounge. The LUX Award is an instrument for highlighting and reflecting on films that deal with social and political themes. It aims at encouraging debate and reflection and using films to help build a stronger European identity.

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. The theme for 2023 is ‘Actions for Peace: Our Ambition for the Global Goals’.

On 11 July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces, led by General Ratko Mladić captured the town of Srebrenica in Eastern Bosnia, which had been declared a UN Safe Area. In the following days, over 8,000 Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered and buried in mass graves. In 2022, the European Parliament awarded the Lux Award to ‘Quo Vadis Aida?’ a film that offers a view on the suffering of people duri...

The winner of the LUX - European Audience Film Award 2023 is ‘Close’. The LUX Award is an instrument for highlighting and reflecting on films that deal with social and political themes. It aims at encouraging debate and using cinema to help build a stronger European identity.

The Spring 2023 Eurobarometer showed citizens strongly support democracy and are very aware of next year’s European elections. The vote to choose our Members of the European Parliament will take place from 6 to 9 June 2024 in all EU countries.

Established in 2008, the European Charlemagne Youth Prize is an award run jointly by the European Parliament and the Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen.  This year, first place went to ‘AILEM’ from Belgium, the first-ever language app tailored to refugees and asylum seekers.

There is no end in sight to Russia’s war against Ukraine. On 24 February 2022, Moscow launched its military aggression against Ukraine, violating international law and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Since then, thousands of people have lost their lives and millions have been displaced. The European Union’s support for Ukraine and Ukrainians has not wavered.

The five films that are running for the 2023 LUX Audience Award are: ‘Alcarràs’, ‘Burning days’, ‘Close’, ‘Triangle of Sadness’  and ‘Will O’-The-Wisp’. The LUX Award’ is an instrument for highlighting and reflecting on films that deal with social and political themes. It aims at encouraging debate and using cinema to help build a stronger European identity.

Two journalists, Clément Di Roma and Carol Valade, have been awarded the 2022 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for their documentary “The Central African Republic under Russian influence”. Clément Di Roma is a video and photojournalist correspondent for France24 based in Rwanda. Carol Valade is a multi-media reporter who works in Africa as a press correspondent.

The brave people of Ukraine, represented by their president, elected leaders, and civil society, have won the award named after Andrei Sakharov, who dedicated his life to defending human rights.

Ukraine is a multilingual country. The official language is Ukrainian, spoken by just over half the population as their first language, while the overwhelming majority of people consider themselves bilingual. In this podcast you will find out more about the history of the Ukrainian language, learn, in what way it is special, how it sounds and how it is similar to or different from other languages.

Didn’t you make it to our Multilingualism Day event in Brussels on the 24th of September? Fear not! Listen to a selection of interviews with translators, interpreters and visitors who joined our live radio coverage on that occasion.

The 2022 spring Eurobarometer is the first Eurobarometer survey to take place since the war in Ukraine began. The survey focused on the conflict and its economic consequences and examined people’s views about the European Union.

The winner of the 2022 LUX Audience Award is Quo Vadis, Aida? The LUX Award is an instrument for highlighting and reflecting on films that deal with social and political themes. It aims at encouraging debate and reflection and using films to help build a stronger European identity.

On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, the European Parliament officially launched the second edition of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism. Set up in 2019, the prize aims to recognise outstanding in-depth journalistic work on topics that are relevant to the European Union as a whole or to some of its Member States. The award contributes to the promotion of EU principles and values, as en...

The final report of the Conference on the Future of Europe has now been prepared, after a process spanning a year. The European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission have promised to listen to the people of the EU. They have also committed to following up, wherever they can, on the proposals, which are the result of a series of debates that gave people from across the EU the chance t...

The Culture and Education Committee of the European Parliament proposes measures to fight against offline and online racism and discrimination in culture, education, media and sport sectors.

The Conference on the Future of Europe is a series of debates for people from across the EU to share their ideas on key priorities and help shape our common future. The Conference is the first of its kind: its aim is to give people living in the EU their say on what it does and how it works for them. The Citizens’ Panels are crucial elements of the Conference.

Eurobarometer and Parlemeter, introduced in 1973 and 2007 respectively, are the two tools that the EU institutions use to survey public opinion and find out about citizens’ priorities.

The three films in the running for the 2022 LUX Audience Award are: Flee, Great Freedom and Quo Vadis, Aida? The LUX Award puts a spotlight on films that deal with social and political themes. It aims to encourage debate and reflection and use films to help building a stronger European identity.

Set up in 1985, the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded to people and organisations for outstanding activities or achievements in defending human rights in Europe and further afield.