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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9741
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/communication

Launch of European Parliament webtv

Brussels, 16/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - From 10.00am on Wednesday 17 September 2008, anyone with broadband will be able to watch the European Parliament's new television channel Europarltv (http://www.europarltv.europa.eu ). Europarltv offers four channels, each will a different target audience: - “Your Parliament” (for those with a particular interest in politics and the EU, with interviews of MEPs); - “Your Voice” (for the general public, with interactive services); “Young Europe” (targeting school aged children, the European citizens of tomorrow); - “Parliament Live” (providing coverage of plenary debates, with a link to the archives and the activities of Parliamentary committees). There is also a section called “Discovering the European Parliament” which provides background material on the EP, including profiles of the MEPs and presidents of the Parliament, programmes on the political groups and committees and on the history of the EP and how it works. Programmes will be translated into all the current EU languages, with the exception of Irish Gaelic (in total 22 languages). Under its Charter, the channel is required to “ensure that the plurality of opinion in the European Parliament is reflected, with due respect to the relative strengths of the political groups, in accordance with neutral, non-partisan editorial policy”. (L.C./transl.rt)

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