Europe and Me

The winner of the LUX - European Audience Film Award 2023 is ‘Close’. The LUX Award is an instrument for highlighting and reflecting on films that deal with social and political themes. It aims at encouraging debate and using cinema to help build a stronger European identity.

The Spring 2023 Eurobarometer showed citizens strongly support democracy and are very aware of next year’s European elections.

The vote to choose our Members of the European Parliament will take place from 6 to 9 June 2024 in all EU countries.

Established in 2008, the European Charlemagne Youth Prize is an award run jointly by the European Parliament and the Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen.  This year, first place went to ‘AILEM’ from Belgium, the first-ever language app tailored to refugees and asylum seekers.

There is no end in sight to Russia’s war against Ukraine. On 24 February 2022, Moscow launched its military aggression against Ukraine, violating international law and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Since then, thousands of people have lost their lives and millions have been displaced. The European Union’s support for Ukraine and Ukrainians has not wavered.

The five films that are running for the 2023 LUX Audience Award are: ‘Alcarràs’, ‘Burning days’, ‘Close’, ‘Triangle of Sadness’  and ‘Will O’-The-Wisp’. The LUX Award’ is an instrument for highlighting and reflecting on films that deal with social and political themes. It aims at encouraging debate and using cinema to help build a stronger European identity.

Two journalists, Clément Di Roma and Carol Valade, have been awarded the 2022 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for their documentary “The Central African Republic under Russian influence”. Clément Di Roma is a video and photojournalist correspondent for France24 based in Rwanda. Carol Valade is a multi-media reporter who works in Africa as a press correspondent.

The brave people of Ukraine, represented by their president, elected leaders, and civil society, have won the award named after Andrei Sakharov, who dedicated his life to defending human rights.

Ukraine is a multilingual country. The official language is Ukrainian, spoken by just over half the population as their first language, while the overwhelming majority of people consider themselves bilingual. In this podcast you will find out more about the history of the Ukrainian language, learn, in what way it is special, how it sounds and how it is similar to or different from other languages.

Didn’t you make it to our Multilingualism Day event in Brussels on the 24th of September?

Fear not! Listen to a selection of interviews with translators, interpreters and visitors who joined our live radio coverage on that occasion.

The 2022 spring Eurobarometer is the first Eurobarometer survey to take place since the war in Ukraine began.

The survey focused on the conflict and its economic consequences and examined people’s views about the European Union.