European Daily - Europe's Daily Newspaper
Pre-launch Edition – 

Europe’s daily newspaper launching in 2012

Four years ago we started on a journey to create a daily newspaper for Europe. We began with this online concept site featuring mainly aggregated news. In the summer of 2011 we published a 'preview edition' in print with content written exclusively for us to more accurately present our vision for the European Daily. We are now preparing for a full-scale launch – in print, on mobile devices and online – in 2012.

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Our mission, duty and privilege

The daily newspaper is the mirror in which a society sees itself. It sets the agenda, gives common points of reference and provides a forum for debate about issues that matter to all. Reading the newspaper together with the morning coffee might seem a trivial daily routine, but it is one of the pillars of a truly vibrant and democratic society.

Over the past decades, momentous events have reshaped Europe’s political, economic and social landscape. Millions of people now live in a European country other than their own. Many Europeans regularly cross borders to work, study or simply for vacation. We share the same political institutions, often carry the same money in our pockets and, increasingly, rely on English as a common language. These are all features of our daily lives. European society is a reality, whether people feel European or not.

Yet, strangely, daily news is still largely covered from national perspectives. Events, developments and opinions are seen through national lenses and feed into separate narratives. State borders no longer prevent us from moving around the continent freely, but they still manage to isolate debates and hold back the free flow of ideas and arguments. Meanwhile, many important issues are decided at the European level, from how we run our economies to the food we eat.

Without common points of reference, Europeans talk past each other. Daily news reporting and analysis demands a European perspective. For us, that means untangling complex issues and bringing them into a wider context to show how they impact on the everyday life of Europeans, whether they live in Lisbon or Helsinki. We believe that this can be provided by a European daily newspaper.

In the end, what is currently missing is intelligent and independent journalism that gives form to Europe by analysing, debating and criticising issues from a European perspective. Providing this will be our mission, our duty and our privilege.

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Europe
BY Reuters | PHOTO ap
PUBLISHED 17:11, February 22, 2012
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Support for Greece’s two pro-bailout parties has sunk to an all-time low, but pollsters predict the squabbling rivals will still scrape through upcoming elections with enough seats in parliament to push through the reforms demanded by lenders. With Greece finally clinching a 130-billion-euro rescue package to avert a messy default, attention is slowly shifting to elections due in April – with financial markets and European partners nervously waiting to see whether a new government will swallow the bitter austerity pill... [Read more]

Europe
BY BBC News | PHOTO bbc news
PUBLISHED 17:43, February 22, 2012
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Two prominent Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs in the latest violence in the besieged city which left 20 people dead. Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, an American, and award-winning French photographer Remi Ochlik died when a shell hit a makeshift media centre in the Baba Amr district. Opposition-held areas of Homs have been besieged... [Read more]

Business
BY BBC News
PUBLISHED 10:15, February 21, 2012

The European Central Bank (ECB) has said it made no purchases of eurozone government bonds last week.The emergency bond-buying programme was not used for the first time since August.The central bank has been buying the bonds of cash-strapped countries like Italy and Spain in a bid to keep their cost of borrowing down. Many feared that a surge in interest... [Read more]

Abroad
BY Reuters
PUBLISHED 08:40, February 22, 2012

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned his ministry on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, stoking speculation he would mount a leadership challenge and plunging the government into a new crisis. The government has sunk in popularity as Gillard and Rudd, who she ousted in 2010, have waged a personal feud. They differ little... [Read more]

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Sport
BY AP
PUBLISHED 08:01, February 22, 2012

Chelsea didn’t do much better than Arsenal on its trip to Italy in the Champions League, leaving English clubs in danger of missing the quarterfinals of the competition for the first time since 1996. Showing the same kind of defensive frailties that condemned Arsenal to a 4-0 loss at AC Milan last week, Chelsea failed to protect an early lead... [Read more]

Culture
BY The Telegraph
PUBLISHED 10:32, February 22, 2012

David Cameron may want to copy Sweden’s ample child care benefits to get more women into top jobs, but that wouldn’t work in Britain. Earlier this month, David Cameron posed on the edge of the Baltic Sea in wintry Stockholm and wondered what Britain could learn from countries like Sweden to promote the number of British women in top jobs.... [Read more]

Opinion
BY Gareth Evans
PUBLISHED 15:45, December 28, 2011

Written by Gareth Evans

Václav Havel, the Czech playwright and dissident turned president, and North Korean despot Kim Jong-il might have lived on different planets, for all their common commitment to human dignity, rights, and democracy. When they died just a day apart this month, the contrast was hard for the global commentariat to resist: Prague’s prince of light against Pyongyang’s prince of darkness.

But it is worth remembering that Manichaean good-versus-evil typecasting, to which former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair were famously prone, and of which we have had something of a resurgence in recent days, carries with it two big risks for international policymakers.

One risk is that such thinking limits the options for dealing effectively with those who are cast as irredeemably evil. The... [Read more]