9. September 2024. Former German President Joachim Gauck and former Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping will deliver the laudatory speeches at the M100 Media Award ceremony for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Dr Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu. The M100 Media Award ceremony will take place on 12 September from 19:00 in the Orangery Sanssouci and will be streamed live on www.m100potsdam.org/en.
To our great regret, Chancellor Olaf Scholz had to cancel his attendance at the M100 Media Award for scheduling reasons.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk is also unable to attend the award ceremony in person due to important commitments in the country, which have been postponed to 12 September this year. Professor Adam Bodnar, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland, will accept the award on behalf of the Prime Minister.
The daytime M100 Sanssouci Colloquium is being held this year under the title “Democracy under Attack. Disinformation Campaigns, AI and the Role of the Media in the 2024 Super Election Year”. In the super election year 2024, around 80 international editors-in-chief, academics and representatives from politics and civil society will discuss the effects of disinformation, Europe’s defences, the transatlantic partnership, the state of democracy, the opportunities and dangers of artificial intelligence and the role and tasks of journalists in an increasingly complex and complicated world.
From 17:30 – 18:30 (CET) , a live-streamed special talk will take place in cooperation with POLITICO (www.m100potssdam.org). Under the title ‘Europe in the Shadow of the US Election’, Adam Jasser (Deputy News Editor, TVP World, Poland), Tanit Koch (Journalist, The New European, Germany), Jonathan Martin (Political Bureau Chief and Senior Political Columnist, POLITICO, USA) and Olga Rudenko (Editor-in-Chief, The Kyiv Independent, Ukraine) will discuss what a possible President Donald Trump or a possible President Kamala Harris mean for Europe and Ukraine. Jürgen Klöckner (Head of Pros and Senior Politics Reporter, POLITICO Germany) will moderate.
