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The European Commission published the report “Communicating about Europe via the Internet: Engaging the citizens”.
As the report mentioned, the objectives of the EUROPA website are to:

· respond to the needs of people with a broad and/or professional interest in EU affairs;
· help people looking for a particular service, or for information on their rights or EU policies;
· communicate the views of the Commission to the widest possible audience;
· allow people to express and exchange their views and opinions throughout Europe;
· help create a sense of European community as a supplement to the national sphere.

The fact that they intend to contact some of the most active websites dealing with EU issues, to explore “possible Web partnerships” and developing a “network of civil society and public and private websites that promote contact with or between European citizens and stimulate debate on EU policy issues” might be a good thing. The discussions on European issues can thus become more accessible to the citizens - I believe I’m not the only one bothered by the new developed “wooden tongue” (those who experienced the former communist ‘propaganda machine’ know what I mean), that the phrases, clishes and expressions repeated over and over again end up by being empty of any sense etc.
I don’t know how they will select the website to cooperate with, I really hope there will not be only those ‘pro-EU’, that the websites that also have sometimes critics on EU Institutions actions (not necessary eurosceptics - but why not? this would be a real debate) will not be ignored. Otherwise the internet can become something else, not just a source of information.