M100 SANSSOUCI COLLOQUIUM

Europe’s unique Media Conference for Democracy and Press Freedom

Between Ambition and Disarray – The Future of Democracy

Thursday, 14 September 2023
Orangery Sanssouci, Potsdam
M100 Media Award

M100 Media Award 2022
to the people of Ukraine
accepted by Dr Wladimir Klitschko
Laudationes: Amy Gutmann & Donald Tusk
Keynote Speech: Olaf Scholz
M100 YEJ Workshop

Reporting on Climate Change – and its Significance for Democracy

9 – 14 September 2023
Potsdam

M100 Young European Journalists Workshop

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Dr. Christian Rainer, member of the M100 Board, about the significance of journalism

“A world without journalists is like a population without democracy – imaginable, but unimaginable.“

Dr. Christian Rainer, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Profil, Austria

The Federal Foreign Office supports the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium!

“The European Union is much more than merely a single market – above all, it is a community of values. We Europeans share values such as fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law and work together to defend them at home and abroad – this is what makes us strong. The answer to the challenges of the rapidly changing world of the 21^st century can only be European. Even the largest country is too small, if it is alone, but together we all benefit from each other.”

Martin Kotthaus, Director General European Affairs, Federal Foreign Office, Germany

I am very moved, especially because I was not expecting to hear these words, which are like an embrace for me. So I want to thank you for this award, for the incredibly moving words of Giovanni di Lorenzo, for this wonderful sky that has welcomed me to Potsdam, and also to thank the Federal Chancellor for her touching words, and for her encouraging presence. Because the awareness raised heartens me a lot more than words. Roberto Saviano, M100 Media Award laureate 2016
It is a great honour for me to be here and receive this great price. It's a very big day for me. I thank Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dr. Joachim Gauck for the kind and strong words, and for their appreciation. Thank you, I will never forget this day! Kurt Westergaard, danish cartoonist, M100 Media Award laureate 2010
At the same time, today’s prize is an appeal to all persons who hold positions of responsibility in governments, in culture and in the media: be steadfast, value-oriented and also COURAGEOUS when irresponsible persons and powers undermine or relativise our values of freedom. It is a virtue to yield to a convincing argument, but it is cowardice to yield to a threat from enemies of freedom. Joachim Gauck in his laudation to Kurt Westergaard, 2010
I receive [this award] with an immense joy, happiness and humility also, because I think by being with you today here, I am receiving this price in the name of those who are still suffering in the jungle of Colombia and of those in the world that are living in similar conditions and who cannot speak for themselves freely. Ingrid Betancourt, M100 Media Award laureate 2008
But I have to say that in our modern society the media has a very, very particular responsibility, also for the European idea. And I hope that the event today – and the events which will follow – will help us to communicate better, to explain better and to convince people that Europe – and acknowledging all the problems, the mistakes and the deficits – […] that at the end of the day the idea of European integration is the best idea that we have ever developed in our history. Günther Verheugen, former EU-Commissioner, in his keynote speech 2005

M100 SANSSOUCI COLLOQUIUM

Between Ambition and Disarray – The Future of Democracy

M100 Media Award

M100 YEJ Workshop

Reporting on Climate Change – and its Significance for Democracy

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

M100 Media Award

M100 Young European Journalists Workshop