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ECFR Europe-wide survey on the Ukraine conflict

Majorities across Europe expect a Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 – and favour EU and NATO defending Ukraine.

9 February 2022. A Europe-wide survey by ECFR shows that overwhelming majorities in Germany (52%), France (51%), Italy (51%), Poland (73%), Romania (64%) and Sweden (55%) expect Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022. In Finland, a large majority (44%) share this view.

• NATO is seen as the main defender of Ukrainian sovereignty, but Europeans also believe that the EU should stand behind Ukraine in the event of Russian aggression.

• Providing support to Ukraine is seen by many as an acceptable risk, although most people are less committed when it comes to their home country’s role in defending Ukraine.

• According to foreign policy experts Mark Leonard and Ivan Krastev, the coming weeks will show “whether Europeans:in can make the transition from a world dominated by soft power to one dominated by resilience” – and that the popular notion that war is “unthinkable” is no longer true.

“We do not want to be perceived only as victims”

4 February 2022. Interview with Olga Konsevych, 33, editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian newspaltform 24tv.ua about the situation in Ukraine, the conflict with Russia and her work as journalist.

24tv.ua is the news platform of the Ukrainian TV channel Channel 24. When did you join, who are your users, your target groups and how do you reach them?

OK: In 2019, I joined the 24 channel’s team. I am involved in the development of digital strategy and responsible for 24tv.ua website. Our team consists of 115 people who work mainly in Kyiv and Lviv (the western part of Ukraine). We are reaching an average of 35-40 million unique users per month (about 100 million page views for the 24tv.ua project). In my editorial office, I am responsible for the formats of explanatory journalism and solutions journalism. When the coronavirus crisis reached Ukraine we shifted our focus to covering COVID-19 related stories as well as using series of infographics, videos etc.

Our Alumni Network: Lorenzo Canu, Italy

26 January 2022. Lorenzo Canu is a communications all-rounder, with a passion for PR. After working in Italy, Hungary, United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands he graduated with honours in Political, Social and International Sciences from the University of Bologna, with a thesis in Public Relations that has been published by the Spanish think-tank Corporate Excellence.
He is currently interning at the European Association of Communication Agencies (EACA) in Brussels.

Outside his internship, Lorenzo also collaborates pro-bono with international and national PR associations (Corporate Excellence, Global Alliance, FERPi, COM-ENT) in the dissemination of the Global PR & Communications Model, which he single-handedly translated into French and Italian. He presented the latter on December 1st at a national conference, together with the results of his thesis (300+ views here), and he will do the same with the French translation together with COM-ENT, in 2022.

Vitali Klitschko: Germany betrays its friends!

24 January 2022. Former world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kiev since 2014 and M100 Media Award laureate 2014, cannot understand the behaviour of the German government in the Ukraine conflict, he writes in an exclusive text for the BILD newspaper.

“There is huge disappointment in Ukraine that the German government continues to stick to Nord Stream 2,” Klitschko says. “That it doesn’t want to supply defensive weapons and at the same time also prevents states like Estonia from supplying us with weapons.” He had lived in Germany for a long time and still has many friends there. “That’s why it hurts me especially to see how Putin-understanders have taken political control on many issues! The billions Russia has invested to buy German corporations, ex-politicians and lobbyists have paid off for Vladimir Putin.”

Ken Sweeney: The European Network is looking for media enthusiasts

22 January 2022. Irish journalist Ken Sweeney is passionate about running and fuelling the news platform The European Network, which he co-founded in 2019. “We publish articles by media enthusiats from all over Europe and the world” he says.

He is particularly proud of the series of different podcasts which deal with the future of Europe, science in Europe or with specific regions like Moldova, and in which ordinary people are also interviewed.

M100 cooperates with Treffpunkteuropa

18 January 2022. Treffpunkteuropa.de is the political online magazine of Young European Federalists (JEF) Germany and is published in seven different languages. It explains European politics, offers a platform for European perspectives and gives young people the opportunity to help shape the European media space through their own contributions and contributing more broadly to a European public sphere.

Within the framework of our cooperation, we will help to promote one anothers’ events and projects, support each other thematically and organise a joint workshop or webinar. English articles are available on the sister site of Treffpunkteuropa, The New Federalist.

We look forward to this new collaboration!

New documentary film about Navalny

17 January 2022. Today, Russian politician and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, M100 Media Award laureate 2021, is imprisoned since one year.

While Russia has set his allies Leonid Volkov, who accepted the award for Navalny on 6 October in Potsdam, and Ivan Zhdanov to its list of “terrorists & extremists”, CNN & HBO have announced a documentary about him. Please click here for more information about the film.
#FreeNavalny

Ali Fathollah-Nejad: Berlin Mideast Podcast and book about Iran

14 January 2022. With the Berlin Mideast Podcast, Dr Ali Fathollah-Nejad has initiated the first major German-language podcast on the Middle East.

In each episode, a central topic related to Europe’s neighboring region, the Middle East (North Africa & West Asia), is being discussed, ranging from politics, society, economics, foreign and security policy. The first episode looks at the Arab Spring “long-term revolutionary process” a decade on, the second one at the role of Russia in the Middle East.

Save the Date: M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2022

13 January 2022. The date and venue for the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2022 are set!

The 18th M100 Sanssouci Colloquium will take place on Thursday 15 September at the old familiar location in Potsdam. We are confidently planning a face-to-face event at the Orangerie Sanssouci, where the M100 Media Award will also be presented.

We will once again host the dinner in the historic Kaiserbahnhof.
More details will follow shortly.

We commemorate the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo

7 January 2022. 7 years ago today, on 7 January 2015, 12 people were killed in a terrorist attack carried out by two perpetrators with Islamist motives on the editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris; the victims include 8 Charlie Hebdo employees and the publisher Stéphane Charbonnier. In 2011, the offices were also subject to an arson attack, following the publication of special edition on the electoral success of Islamists in Tunisia.
In recognition of the epochal significance of Charlie Hebdo’s ordeal, the board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium awarded the editorial team and its editor-in-chief Gérard Biard with the M100 Media Award in September 2015.