EDITORIAL CHARTER (part of - please visit the website)
PRESSEUROP.EU is a network of press publishers whose journalists work in compliance with the present Editorial Charter and their national editorial charters.
PRESSEUROP.EU’s object is to present public discussion of a wide range of issues relating to the European Project and “bring the European Union to life” through the prism of press coverage in the 27 EU Member States, in the EU accession candidate countries and in the rest of the world, by selecting, verifying and disseminating news and information regarding the EU and “Europe” in the widest sense of the word. The object pursued by PRESSEUROP.EU’s partners and their professional journalists is to promote* informed democratic debate within the EU.
PRESSEUROP.EU’s Members and their professional journalists act wholly independently from any instructions, pressure or requests from any EU institution, partisan organisation or pressure group, and from any EU Member State or any other State or institution, concerning the content of PRESSEUROP.EU’s “EU service” (i.e. EU-related broadcasts and programmes as provided for under the current contract between PRESSEUROP.EU and the EU institutions).
PRESSEUROP.EU’s Members subscribe fully, in the operation and editorial choices of their press group, to the current applicable ethical standards of professional journalism. PRESSEUROP.EU shall endeavour to present an impartial, balanced and openminded reflection of the debates and issues covered by the European and international press.
PRESSEUROP.EU’s Members shall endeavour to enliven and enhance the appeal of the issues addressed by PRESSEUROP.EU, particularly by means of corresponding editorial treatment and reader interactivity.
PRESSEUROP.EU’s website shall offer balanced coverage of European news in 10 languages. For the purposes of the present Charter, “coverage of European news” does not mean exhaustive tracking of current events inside the EU and its Member States, but selective coverage of overarching issues, debates and opinions that cut across the European media. PRESSEUROP.EU does not seek to present an exhaustive running log of the activities of the European Commission and the various EU institutions, but to disseminate, within the 27 Member States, institutional and political news about the European Union by providing impartial reporting or commentary by professional journalists on the actions and policies of EU bodies and institutions.