” “Nowadays in Europe "one of the biggest challenges is to find the way to explain the EU to its citizens without doing propaganda". This is the belief of Martine Reicherts, former spokesperson for the European Commission, for one year the general manager of the Official Publications Office of the European Communities (Opoce), the EU’s publishing house that publishes the Official Journal of the European Union every day in over 21 languages and provides publications on the EU’s work and policies. As she spoke last night in Rome at a meeting with the press at the headquarters of Eurispes (Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies), Reicherts stated: "We cannot go on saying everything’s all right and Europe is wonderful; the publishing role of Opoce must be strengthened to develop the internal ability to communicate in a new, effective way", improving both "the contents and the innovation of technology". To "build an idea of Europe that can be grasped by all Europeans she highlighted , we need a stronger synergy with the publishing world to spread the image of what the EU really is". (continued)” “
