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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10621

26 May 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 29
CULTURE / (ae) culture
Newspapers are crucial for democracy, says Vassiliou

Brussels, 25/05/2012 (Agence Europe) - The role of newspapers in fashioning tolerant, democratic society is just as important in Europe today as at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, who is famous for his comment that he was more scared of three newspapers than of a thousand bayonets. This was the message of EU Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, in a speech on 25 May 2012 to the AGM of the European Newspaper Editors' Association (ENPA) in Nicosia...

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