Spain and the EU and its agricultural, fisheries, trade, economic and monetary policies were studied at the third edition of the course for young journalists on the European Union held at the headquarters of EFE, whose president, Miguel Ángel Oliver, encouraged the participants to learn to tell the story of the EU's challenges, difficulties and commitment to the welfare of its citizens.

Oliver welcomed the 24 young journalists from all over Spain who are attending this course, taught by the Spanish News Agency EFE School of Journalism and the RTVE Institute, in collaboration with the European Parliament, and stressed that with the construction of Europe, old wounds from years of war have been overcome, and that thanks to the EU, Europe enjoys well-being, peace and prosperity.

 He also stressed the importance of Spain within the EU, underlining that it is at the forefront of the Union. 

The aim of this course is for young journalists to learn how to tell a better story about the EU, in order to explain to Spanish citizens how the EU institutions work and how the policies agreed in Brussels affect them.
 

This course - to which 110 journalists applied and were selected - takes place three months before the European elections.
In this edition, the participants shared a session with members of the Madariaga Club, made up of the winners of the prestigious "Salvador de Madariaga Journalism Award", with whom they analysed what is at stake for the European Union in next June's elections. 

The 24 young journalists selected work in print, radio, television and digital media in Aragon, the Canary Islands, Castile-Leon, Valencia, Galicia, Madrid and Murcia, regions Of these 24 journalists, ten work in the written and digital press, three in radio, seven in different television stations and four in news agencies.

This four-year training programme, which began in 2023, is structured in eight editions, one per semester and each edition in two modules, one in Spain and one in Brussels, which will be attended by some of the 24.

Spain is one of the eight pilot countries in which this training programme has been launched, which will be extended to the 27 members of the EU.