The European Initiative Prize ( French: '')'' is a

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (pro ...

prize, created in 2003 by the Maison de l’Europe de Paris and the European Press Club with the support of the

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.Prize of the European initiative
The prize is awarded annually to media contributors who distinguished themselves with high quality work on

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topics. The award ceremony takes place every year in June at the Maison de l’Europe de Paris within the Hotel de Villiers, private mansion of the 19th century, property of the City of

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

and situated in the 17th district of Paris. The ceremony is usually preceded by a debate on European topics. The jury – currently chaired by former MEP and Catherine Lalumière, President of the Maison de l’Europe de Paris – consists of French and European intellectuals. The Prize consists of a diploma of honour and of a piece of art, offered by the European Parliament. Usually, three "ex æquo" prizes are awarded annually.

List of Laureates

2019 Edition

* Alain Devalpo, association Globe Reporters * Caroline Gillet, reporter of

France Inter France Inter () is a major French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is a " generalist" station, aiming to provide a wide national audience with a full service of news and spoken-word programming, both serious and entertaining, li ...

and

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for her French show « Foule Continentale » * Jon Henley, correspondent for

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

2018 Edition

* Sylvain Kahn, professor and researcher at Sciences Po * Marie-Christine Vallet, director of the European editorial at

Radio France Radio France is the French national public radio broadcaster. Stations Radio France offers seven national networks: * France Inter — Radio France's " generalist" station, featuring entertaining and informative talk mixed with a wide variety o ...

* ''Voix d'Europe'', blog created by two editors Virginie Cardoso and Chloé Lourenço * The ''Vox Pop'' programme on

Arte Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...

, represented by Marc Berdugo, producer of the show

2017 Edition

* Olivier Breton, director of ' *

Jacques Delors Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French politician who served as the 8th President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. He served as Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry (France), Minister of Finance of Fran ...

, former President of the European Commission *

Enrico Letta Enrico Letta (; born 20 August 1966) is an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014, leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. Since March 2021, Letta has been secretary ...

, former Secretary to the

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and president of the Jacques Delors Institute

2016 Edition

*Christophe Ayad, member of the Panama Papers project, journalist for the French newspaper

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

*Franck Bourgeron, managing editor, La Revue Dessinée *

Daniel Cohn-Bendit Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (; ; born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician of Jewish descent. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as ''Dany le Rouge'' (French for "Danny the Red" ...

for his journalistic work *

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2015 Edition

* '' Cartooning for Peace'' * ''

Eurochannel Eurochannel is a world television channel focused on European culture and lifestyle through movies, series and other programs dedicated to European culture. Eurochannel broadcasts in original audio with subtitles in English, Spanish and Portugu ...

'' * ''

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s ''Journées Europe''

2014 Edition

* Yves Bertoncini, Notre Europe –Jacques Delors Institute & Thierry Chopin,

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for their report: ''Des visages sur des clivages : les élections européennes de mai 2014 '' * Europavox *

Public Sénat In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

2013 Edition

* Kattalin Landaburu,

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* Rudolf Chimelli, journaliste * Euronews

2012 Edition

* Nicolas Gros-Verheyde o
Bruxelles2.eu
* Érik Izraelewicz, director of

* Stefan de Vries, journalist

2011 Edition

* Daniel Desesquelle presenting the ''Carrefour de l'Europe'' programme on 5 avril 2013 in Strasbourg. * Alberto Toscano, journalist * Pascal Verdeau, journalist,

France 3 France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info. It is made up of a network of regional television services provi ...

2010 Edition

* Paul Germain, ''Le Bar de l’Europe'' TV5 Monde * , Le Téléphone sonne – spécial Europe –

* , Libération newspaper

2008 Edition

* Françoise Crouïgneau, chief international editor, '' Les Échos'' daily newspaper * for ''Kiosque'' on TV5 Monde * Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former president of the European Journalist Association (AJE)

2009 Edition

* , rédactrice en chef de la rédaction Européenne de

Courrier International ''Courrier International'' ( French for "International Mail") is a Paris-based French weekly newspaper which translates and publishes excerpts of articles from over 900 international newspapers. It also has a Portuguese and a Japanese edition. '' ...

* , directeur chargé des Affaires européennes –

2007 Edition

* , président d’

* Daniel Vernet, directeur des Relations Internationales * Laurence Aubron pour

2006 Edition

* Ferdinando Riccardi, Marina Gazzo, editors of ''l’Agence Europe'' * , director general of ''

Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace ''Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace'', commonly known as ''DNA'', is a regional daily French newspaper covering the Alsace region. History and profile ''DNA'' was created in November 1877 as ''Neueste Nachrichten'' by German Heinrich Ludwig Kays ...

'' * Bernard Guetta, journalist and columnist at ''

'' and '' L'Express''

2005 Edition

Christine Ockrent Christine Ockrent (born 24 April 1944) is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television. She interviewed Amir Abbas Hoveyda, the former Iranian prime minister, in Evin prison after the Islamic revolution in 197 ...

for the programme ''France Europe Express'' on

* , Director -General, President of ''

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'' newspaper

2004 Edition

* ' – online magazine *

's ''Cause Commune'' * Anne-marie Autissier for her review, ''Culture Europe International'' * La Croix newspaper

References

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