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CNN Prima News | Myths about the European Union: How disinformation threatens our values and how to counter it?

June 04, 2024

Many myths, hoaxes, and lies circulate about the European Union. Despite the spread of this information, decisions in Brussels are not made "about us without us," and the European Union does not plan to ban curved cucumbers and bananas. Why, then, do these disinformations spread? And how can we prevent them? Viktor Daněk, Deputy Director of EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, comments for CNN Prima News.

Newsroom ČT24 | Myths about the EU: Crooked bananas and other bans

April 16, 2024

Myths and disinformation about allegedly bad European officials and their bans spread in the Czech Republic even before joining the EU and persist to this day. What is the origin of these disinformation, and what are the most common myths? Žiga Faktor, head of the Brussels office and deputy director of the EUROPEUM Institute, addressed these questions in a comment for Newsroom ČT24.

Roundtable report | Monitoring of the EU’s Green Policies: Perceptions and Narratives in the Czech and Slovak Information Space

February 28, 2023

On 17th of January 2023, the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy organised a closed roundtable discussion titled Monitoring of the EU’s Green Policies: Perceptions and Narratives in the Czech and Slovak Information Space. The discussion was held under the Chatham House Rule and attended by experts on the EU’s green policies and disinformation from think-tank communities and academia as well as by journalists who regularly comment on these topics. The event was moderated by Žiga Faktor, EUROPEUM’s Head of the Brussels Office. A short report from the discussion was prepared by our junior researcher and project manager Tatiana Mindeková.

Café Evropa in the regions - Olomouc: The myth of curved bananas – why are myths about the EU so popular?

March 06, 2019

Accept our sincere invitation to the public debate that is part of the series Café Evropa in the regions. This time in Olomouc on March 12th at 1.15 PM.

Euroskop.cz: How do the Czech media report on the EU? Opinion of two former reporters in Brussels

October 06, 2017

Euroskop.cz server has published a report by Tereza Chlebounová about the previous Café Evropa called "EU Media image - how to get oriented between hoaxes and the truth?"

Press release: The interest in upcoming Café Evropa event is enormous

September 25, 2017

The "EU media image - how to recognize the hoaxes and the truth?"

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Café Evropa: the media image of the EU - how to recognize hoaxes and the truth?

September 18, 2017

Accept our sincere invitation to the public debate that is part of the series Café Evropa. Our distinguished guests Ondřej Houska and Michal Půr will discuss the following topic: "EU media image - how to recognize the hoaxes and the truth?"

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