EURONEWS - A PROMOTER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION “QUIET DIPLOMACY”

Roxana Hîncu ()
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Roxana Hîncu: “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania

A chapter in EURINT Proceedings 2013, 2013, vol. 1, pp 79-91 from Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Abstract: This article draws a comparison across Euronews, Cable News Network and Russia Today, as vital tools in promoting European Union’s foreign policy, the American foreign policy, and the Russian one respectively. Therefore, a short historical account of each channel is provided in order to show the context in which they appeared and evolved. Furthermore, the profiles and the program schedule of these news cables are to be discussed in connection with the foreign policy of the EU, the US and Russia, with particular interest to the “Syrian Crisis” beginning in March 2011- degenerating into the nowadays civil war. This case study is paradigmatic for revealing the informational welfare on the background of antagonistic foreign policies of great powers. Accordingly, through discourse and media coverage analyses, one can find that despite a strong EU position against the Syrian regime, the Euronews coverage of the Syrian events is neutral and less emphatic when compared to the CNN or RT coverage. Although, this fact renders Euronews less visible on the international stage of news media, the journalistic strategy of the European network is consistent with EU’s foreign policy through “quiet diplomacy”.

Keywords: Euronews; European Union foreign policy; news coverage; Syrian crisis; quiet diplomacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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