4000 articles … and a price for B2
(BRUXELLES2) B2 today indeed crossed the threshold of 4000 articles. What in just 4 years, makes a production of 3 articles on average per day (Saturday, Sunday and public holidays included)... A symbolic threshold. We have a new challenge now: manage what is starting to be a famous database, to better organize it, develop new tools (internet...) while continuing to cover rather "hot" news at the moment, in short, to perpetuate this site. It's a different story...
In any case, B2 received an award yesterday in Paris which I appreciate at its fair value because it comes from men and women who are also committed to Europe: the European Initiative Prize awarded by Catherine Lalumière (Maison de l'Europe) and Alberto Toscano (Italian journalist of the AGI and president of the European Press club), with the support (discreet and effective) of the office of the European Parliament in Paris. Catherine Lalumière was a member of the European Parliament in particular... And she is the author of one of the first reports on the CFSP/PeSDC (published in 2000) which I invite everyone to read again. Everything or almost everything is there. And some elements remain even more than topical. B2 will come back to it...
During the small ceremony that led to the awarding of this prize, in the Parisian Marais, at the Maison de l'Europe, I was in (very) good company since there were two other recipients: Sylvie Kaufmann received the prize awarded to Eric Izraelewicz from Le Monde for the daily Cahier Europe - Sylvie who is going back to Warsaw, one of her adopted lands - and Stefan de Vries, a fellow Dutch correspondent in Paris with a shimmering sense of humor, who makes him laugh with his description of a meeting of the 27 intended to help him write his speech. Some illustrious "talents" preceded me. And I'm also happy (and a little proud, yes let's face it 🙂 to follow in their footsteps, especially since they are fellow travelers in Brussels like Pascal Verdeau (F3), Jean Quatremer (Liberation and, above all, Coulisses de Brussels) and Quentin Dickinson (his name is no longer necessary, Radio France).
