José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the EC in charge of Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, and Michel Barnier, EU Commissioner responsible for Internal Market and Services, participated at the congress which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the European Newspaper Publishers' Association (ENPA). In his keynote speech the President notably said that this Association was the steward of a great tradition, a legacy that was globally respected in its intellectual richness and dexterity.
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Photo: President José Manuel Barroso. © European Union, 2011
THE EUROPEAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION
The European Newspaper Publishers' Association (ENPA) is an international non-profit association, advocating the interests of the European newspaper publishing industry at different European and international organisations and institutions.
ENPA represents over 5,200 national, regional and local newspaper titles, published in 26 European countries. More than 150 million newspapers are sold and read by over 300 million Europeans every day, in addition to the millions of unique daily visits to online newspapers websites. Publishing industries as a whole constitute an important economic sector in the EU employing more than 750,000 people in 64,000 companies.
Despite seismic changes in the media landscape, newspapers continue to be an integral part of our daily lives. They educate and influence; they entertain and delight; they provoke and inspire debate. They help us make informed decisions on how we should be governed and provide us with the fundamental information to shape the future of our society and our lives.