Journalists dealing with the EU bodies are as many as 960, and "the interest of the media in the EU is on the rise". The end of January will mark the end of media accreditation to the European Union, a process that the EU Commission is responsible for. "The accreditation system has been working since the EU Community was established explain the people in charge of the service to SIR . Since then, everything has been computerised and above all the number of applications has exponentially risen, first from the European media, now from all over the world". In the newsroom in Brussels, as well as in those in Strasbourg, Luxembourg and the other cities in which the EU bodies, agencies and branches are based, journalists are given an "inter-institutional" badge for access. Such media include papers, agencies, TVs, radios and "more and more websites" from the five continents. "But the most numerous come from England, France, Germany and Italy". Chinese journalists are on the rise, although those from South Africa, Azerbaijan, United States (18 papers), Kazakhstan, Uruguay and Vietnam are quite a few too. The best-known media include: Associated Press, Financial Times, Economist, Reuters, BBC, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wall Street Journal. Catholic media are a good number too.
