Balancing tourism and nature

It was back to my native region in the Alps for this report on tourism, environment protection and how they (don't) go together.



Cameras: Peter Stickler, Rudi Sailer
Editing: Denis  Vanobberge
Sound: Lionel Halflants

Thanks to: Eva Lichtenberger, Richard Seeber, Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention (Marco Onida), Alpenpark Karwendel (Hermann Sonntag), Jetz werd's Eng (Harry Danzer), Alpengasthof Eng (Margit Kofler) and of course my family in Lenggries

Update 19 July: This report has just made it to the European Parliament homepage.

A Tyrolean European

Topics discussed ranged from mega-trucks over ACTA to how Europeans perceive Europe as I joined Green MEP Eva Lichtenberger for a day in her Inn valley constituency in Austria.



Camera: Peter Stickler
Editing: Eloïse Fournier
Sound: Arnaud Riedinger

Inquiries: more powers for the EP?

A closer look at the European Parliament's struggle to become more alike to national parliaments or the US House of Representatives by gaining the right to investigate other EU institution's presumed wrongdoings even when those disagree.



Thanks to 
Camera: Hadrien Wastiaux
Editing: Nicolas Van Achter

A European Divorce With Children

In the German Saar region, close to the French border, I discovered how a divorce can be even more painful when the partners are of different nationalities, when there are children involved - and when German law applies. Many thanks to Marie Galimard-Geiss, who devoted us the better part of a day and allowed insight into her family's drama.



I am especially grateful to Hugues Wajnsztok, who did an excellent job on this as a cameraman as well as an editor.
The sound editing was done by Arnaud Riedinger, and he also did a pretty neat job.
A shortened version of this report was used as a VNR in this "7 Days" programme.

News Double Feature

It was a first for me, and also for EuroparlTV: Two news reports on the same day made by a single journalist. It all went well, thanks to the great help of Denis. I would also like to thank Jo Gillette for her voice on the 112 programme and Mark Vandestraten for innovative approaches to recording interviews.






Camera for the interviews on the 112 programme: Hugues Wajnsztok
Editing for both programmes: Denis Vanobberge

Jobless in Germany

There is a harsh reality behind the new German Wirtschaftswunder: Whoever finds himself without a job in Europe's strongest economy is at risk of precarisation. I went to Berlin and Cologne to find out how it all fits together.

This Report was also broadcast as a VNR in this Magazine, and it seems that it didn't go down too well with Andreas Schwab, the German Christian-Democrat MEP who was questioned on it




Cameras: Robert Porsche (Berlin) and Jürgen Piechutta (Cologne)
Editing: Aurélien Bonsignore
Sound: Mathieu Pomes

Presidential Home Town

A few days before Martin Schulz, then the Persident of the Prgogressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the Europan Parliament (for the convenience of it also known as "the S&D" or simply "the Socialists") was elected President of the Parliament, I had an occasion to visit him in his home town of Würselen, close to Aachen and the three borders between Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium.

There were four more camera teams after Mr. Schulz at the same time, plus a number of newspaper journalists, so it was a bit of a challenge - especially for Pierre, who did an excellent job at finding the right camera angles.




Camera: Pierre Hollande
Editing: Aurélien Bonsignore
Sound: Mathieu Pomes

Update July 2012: As I just learned, this is the currently the most-watched programme in the history of EuroparlTV! 

From coal pits in the Ruhr, clean energy

This report took me to Germany's Ruhr area, where caol mining is quickly becoming a thing of the past. At the same time, the region is taking the lead in exploiting geothermal energy - as though it were forever tied to energy from underground.




Camera: Uli Nowitzky
Editing: Aurelien Bonsignore
Sound: Lionel Halflants

Consumers consulted

A short news piece on the Single Market Act. Kudos go to Jo Gill for the two interviews that she did for me in Strasbourg and, well, to the European Commission, DG Internal Market, for two of their videos which I wsa kindly allowed to mash up.



Camera (for the interviews): Mortimer Petre
Editing: François Lamy

Multikulti trifft Werte

Article for Jüdische Allgemeine: Rabbiner und Parlamentarier sprechen über die Zukunft des Judentums in Europa (in German - here's a machine translation into English).

Interview with Renate Sommer on food labelling

The EU's rules on nutritional and health information that must be printed on food packaging are up for revision. German Christian-Democrat MEP Renate Sommer is the European Parliament's rapporteur on the matter.


     


Cameras: Thierry Franz, Hadrien Wastiaux
Editing: François Lamy

Interview with Sarah Ludford on PNR

For EuroparlTV News, I interviewed UK LibDem MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford, a long-time expert on the matter of airline passengers' personal data, the so-called Passenger Name record.



The interview starts  2:21 min. into the programme.

Link to the programme

Published: 24 February 2010
Editor: François Lamy

If you're interested in the matter, here's the full, uncut interview: 

Ludford by anderl

EU agriculture must face up to challenges – MEP Jeggle

The EU is revising its agricultural policy, the famous CAP. I Interviewed German Christian-Democrat Elisabeth Jeggle on the matter.




Link to the programme

Published: 22 February 2011

Duration: 2:23

Mostra Job code: N001-110222-010

Cameramen: Hadrien Wastiaux, François Lamy

Editor: François Marache

Verhältnis: mäßig

Article for Jüdische Allgemeine: EU und Israel uneins über Ost-Jerusalems Status

History: Bigger and Better?

German Green MEP Elisabeth Schroedter, German EPP MEP Elmar Brok and Vytautas Landsbergis, who led Lithuania to independence, were my guests in this programme about the EU's biggest enlargement ever.



Link to the programme

Published: 15 November 2010
Duration: 03’20’’
Mostra Job Code: V001-0007
With: Pierre Holland (Tricaster)
François Marache (Editing)

Wordy cloud

I can't help loving this Wordle of Barroso's State of the EU speech today in the European Parliament (courtesy of bloggingportal.net):



I need to remember this one for the next time I need an illustration of why the EU doesn't manage to reach out to citizens.

Reporter: Copyright fight

I took a trip to England to meet Jonathan Worth, and I interviewed comic book artist Benoît Peeters to look into online copyright. Exceptionally great editing from Denis on this one.




Link to the programme

Published: 13 July 2010
Duration: 04’52’’
Mostra Job Code: M003-0079
With: Geoff Bicker, Geoffrey Baras (Cameras)
Denis Vanobberge (Editing)

The video is also featured in this debate, moderated by Maria Maggiore and published on 12 July:

History: A parliament is born

A look back at the first European Elections, in 1979



Published: 2 July 2010
Duration: 03’13’’
Mostra Job Code: V001-0006
With: Pierre Holland, Hadrien Wastiaux (Tricaster Operators)
Mathieu Pomes (Sound Engineer)
Aurélien Bonsignore (Editing)
Invitees: Bill Newton Dunn (ALDE, UK)
Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP, Germany)
Mariya Nedelcheva (EPP, Bulgaria)
Update 30/08/10: 
My programme has been featured on the European Parliament's main website:

History: Uniting Behind the Single Market

How we came to have free movement of goods, capital, services and people within most of the EU.




Published: 14 June 2010
Duration: 03'01''
Mostra Job Code: V001-0003
With: Pierre Holland, Hadrien Wastiaux (Tricaster Operators)
Mathieu Pomes (Sound Engineer)
François Marache (Editing)
Invitees: Malcolm Harbour (ECR, UK)
Evelyne Gebhardt (PSE, Germany)

A split on divorce

A look at the state of play of European transnational divorce law - and at what is likely to become the first case of “Enhanced Cooperation”, better known as two-speed Europe.



Direct Link

Published: 2 June 2010
Duration: 01’28''
Mostra Job Code: N001-100602-001
With: Arnaud Demolder (Camera and Editing)
Invitees: Evelyne Gebhardt (PSE, Germany)
Raffaele Baldassare (EPP, Italy)

UPDATE 13/07/10: On 12 July 2010, the European Council authorised enhanced co-operation of 14 EU states on divorce.