EUOBSERVER/BRUSSELS - The centre-right European People's Party on Friday (30 January) launched its own online tv channel as part of its political campaign for the June European elections.
"EU political parties can't buy airtime on big networks like BBC, CNN or Euronews, so we decided to create our own web tv channel instead," EPP deputy secretary general Luc Vandeputte told EUobserver.
The Belgian politician, in charge of the online campaign, explained that the service is provided by an external internet TV company and that it offered member parties from all 27 EU states the possibility to upload their videos and have their own channels in their respective languages.
A staff member had been trained as a journalist and would provide reports from the party's various events and conferences, he added.
The setup cost of DialogueTv was €22,724, with a monthly fee of €1,850 and a monthly streaming cost of €1,725.
Until now, the website has been streaming advertorials with conservative leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, on topics like climate change and the economic crisis.
The EPP manifesto, unveiled on the same occasion, portrayed the party as promoting a competitive social market economy as response to the financial crisis and climate change.
On the enlargement front, however, it remains against Turkey's EU membership, maintaining the German chancellor's preference for a "privileged partnership."
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