The Television Academy addresses the challenges of the audiovisual sector in the European Parliament

A delegation from the board of directors and council of the Television Academy has promoted and participated in a significant number of initiatives on the audiovisual sector in the European Parliament from Brussels.

The meeting, organized in collaboration with the European Parliament Office in Spain, was attended by Maria Andres, director of the EP in Spain; Maria Casado, president of the Television Academy; Esperanza Ibanez of Netflix; Jesus Lozano of Atresmedia; Juan Emilio Maillo of Movistar Plus+; María Eizaguirre of RTVE; Francisco Moreno of FORCE; Rosa Garcia Cuevas of Pass; Jorge Losada of Castilla y León Television, and a wide representation of the board of directors of the Academy.

The delegation was able to attend the session opening plenary of the European Parliament chaired by Roberta Metsola. Afterwards, he participated in a meeting with Jaume Duch, general director of Communication and spokesperson of the EP; Jesus Carmona, media director, y Raffaella de Marte, head of media unit, where the keys to the European media agenda for the coming months and the importance of the European Parliament as a center of political and media attention were addressed. Furthermore, the representatives of the EP conveyed to the members of the Television Academy the facilities that the institution provides to the media to carry out coverage on site. The delegation was able to visit the audiovisual facilities that the EP has available to television stations in Brussels.

The Television Academy also participated in a meeting with the Culture and Education Committee of the EP in which they intervened representatives of various political parties and who presided Sabine Verheyen of the EPP. During this meeting, the representatives of Spanish television and platforms were able to directly convey their ideas to the members of the Commission. impressions and concerns about the European audiovisual directive whose transposition has already been approved in our country. In addition, they raised topics of interest to be addressed as future challenges that affect the audiovisual sector in the different television models.

Debate in the European Parliament

Finally, the president of the Television Academy, Maria Casado, moderated a meeting that was broadcast live through YouTube on the challenges of audiovisuals in the new European context, where such interesting topics as the war in Ukraine, the next NATO Summit or misinformation in society were addressed.

The debate included the participation of Jaume Duch, spokesperson for PE; Álvaro de Elera, member of the cabinet Vera Jouroa, Commissioner for Securities and Transparency; Marta Carazo, correspondent of RTVE; Guillermo Pascual, correspondent of Antenna 3, y Joan Raventós, correspondent of TV3.

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