A painting by the artist Arvid Fougstedt depicting visitors at a café reading the newspaper

Arvid Fougstedt, Café de la Rotonde, Paris, 1915 Photo: Juan Luis Sánchez / Moderna Museet

Café Europa 2022

Press freedom & democracy

5.3 2022

Stockholm

Join our press freedom event Café Europa 2022! Meet the journalist and founder of the organisation I Am Here International, Mina Dennert, and the French journalist Camille Langlade in a discussion about freedom of the press. Listen, ask questions and learn more about journalism in the 21st century and its challenges.

On Saturday 5 March, some 30 European cities are organising joint discussions between journalists and local citizens to promote and discuss freedom of the press and democracy.

In Sweden, Moderna Museet is hosting this event, and we will be visited by the two journalists Mina Dennert and Camille Langlade. They will share their experiences and talk about the technical, economic and political challenges facing the press and media in the European Union today.

The French Embassador to Sweden, Etienne de Gonneville, will also be present in the event.

Café Europa 2022 is organised by France in all 27 EU nations, as part of the French EU presidency.

Join us for this unique European event, listen and learn more about how we can work together for freedom of the press and against misinformation, now and in the future. Welcome!

PARTICIPANTS

Journalist, social media expert and author Mina Dennert founded I Am Here International in 2016. The purpose of this organisation is to combat disinformation and online hate.

Camille Langlade is both a television and radio journalist. She was the head of the political department of BFM-TV from 2018 to 2020. She is now a political columnist on BFM-TV.

The discussion is moderated by Josef Kristensen, from the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University.

Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet