Brussels, 30/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission will present a communication by the end of June/beginning of July on information policy, announced the Director General for Information and the spokesperson for the European Commission, Jonathan Faull, during a conference on European information. "Getting the message across" was organised on Tuesday in Brussels by the association "Friends of Europe". This communication will relate in particular to the large European information companies dedicated to the euro, to enlargement, to justice and to internal affairs, said Mr. Faull. It is likely to propose combining the resources of the European Parliament and the Commission in member states to achieve a "more pro-active policy" towards citizens, combined with the grouping together of the information instruments of the Commission under a single administrative structure. It should finally suggest methods of using opinion analysis instruments more efficiently: surveys, press reviews, offices in member states, in order to "make good the information deficit". However, as Jonathan Faull pointed out during the conference, "the Commission is not Europe, the European institutions are not Europe and it is up to the governments to explain what the European Union is" and to "organise a debate at national, regional and local level". The Danish MEP Jens-Peter Bonde (Europe des nations) suggested that the member states should systematically organise referenda, which "oblige them to communicate on the subject of Europe". His compatriot Ole Andreasen (ELDR) proposed that the Chairman of the Commission and the current chairman of the Council should make regular appearances at the National parliaments. Whilst Barry Sutlieff, head of the co-ordination unit of the British government, spoke in favour of a more professional communication policy, using "language accessible to all" and Internet sites with presentation which is more accessible to the general public, Mr. Bonde stated that "a communication policy is enough to take communication downwards, but to take it upwards, greater transparency is needed". Communication exists and "the Commission is in paradise, since it has at its fingertips 10,000 accredited journalists who don't have time to investigate", he added. On the other hand, transparency leaves a great deal to be desired, commented Jens-Peter Bonde, since even the Court of Accounts and the Parliament cannot have access to all the documents.