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| Type | News Media |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Mediahuis |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Language | English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Bulgarian and Romanian |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
| Country | Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia |
| Website | www |
Euractiv is a European news website focused on EU policies, founded in 1999 by the French media publisher Christophe Leclercq.[1] Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Brussels, with other offices in Paris and Berlin. Its content is produced by about 50 journalists[2] staffed in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.[3]
Euractiv's policy coverage is spread across eight 'hubs', Agrifood, Economy, Energy & Environment, Global Europe, Health, Politics, Technology, and Transport. Its news coverage is complemented by a programme of more than 100 events per year, usually in the form of stakeholder debates that span the same policy areas. Euractiv's policy reporting focuses on the pre-legislative stage of EU decision-making, and it has almost all of its English language content translated into French and German.
Euractiv has diversified sources of funding, as the company seeks private and public revenues to run its business. In 2019, about a fifth of Euractiv's income came from public sources, including the EU.[2] Other sources of revenue are advertising and corporate sponsorship.
In May 2023, Euractiv was acquired by Belgian media company Mediahuis in what became the company's first international media platform acquisition.[4] It has a three-person leadership team of René Moerland (publisher and formerly editor-in-chief of Dutch newspaper NRC), Claire Boussagol (Managing Director and formerly President, Europe at APCO Worldwide and CEO at Politico Europe), and Emmanuel Naert (Subscriptions Director).
- ^ "Christophe Leclercq". OECD. Archived from the original on 2015-11-19.
- ^ a b Kanter, James (2019-04-22). "The European Press Corps Cannot Cover the EU". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ "EurActiv". STYLE. Archived from the original on 2020-09-29. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ "Mediahuis strengthens its European ambition with the acquisition of pan-European EURACTIV Media Network". EURACTIV. 2023-05-11. Retrieved 2023-05-11.