European Commission Press Conference

[Spain]

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - PRESS CONFERENCE

Will Appear on this Press Conference: Prem. Commissioner, Eilidh Whiteford; Internal Affairs Commissioner, Jean-Claude Juncker & Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Antoni Reynels.
Subect: Release of the new European Union's APP
Press Invited: Every media that would like to assist is invited.
Will there be a Question Row?: Yes.

[Spain]

Good afternoon everyone and thank you for your assistance to this Press Conference.

Today, we are releasing the new European Union's mobile phone application, which will make the European citizens be informed about what is going on in Europolis and outside Europolis, whenever one of us is travelling to an European Nation or to another region. This idea has had an amazing support from my 2 friends and also workmates, the Premier Commissioner, Ms. Eilidh Whiteford and also the External Affairs Commissioner, Mr. Antoni Reynels. Both of them have made lots of proposals and ideas to the mobile phone application that for sure will help every single European citizen. And now, I'm proceeding to explain the general details of the app and then, what Europeans will be able to find in the Internal Affairs section.

The new mobile phone application will be able to be downloaded in the Play Store and also in the App Store, as in the other possible places to download apps for the mobile phones. It will be called "European Commission" and will be free for every single European, as this pretends to be a service that the Commission offers to the citizens. It won't weigh a lot, it's about 30 Megabytes and it will be divided into 3 sections:

• Premier Commissioner
• Internal Affairs Commissioner
• Foreign Affairs Commissioner

This will be the app logo:

In the Internal Affairs section, European Union's citizens will be able to find the most recent news of my department, as also my biography, my agenda and interviews with the European Media. It will be possible to message me via email or the app, so I can be in touch with the European citizens. If they don't want to reveal their personal data when they write to me, there's an option to write an anonymus email to me. I'll try to answer as much as I can so I can listen to the Europeans' suggestions and proposals.

Thank you all and I cede the word to Mr. Antoni Reynels, the Foreign Affairs Commissioner.

[Inquista]

Good afternoon,

I'd like to begin by thanking everyone who has been involved in organizing this press conference. I would like to also thank Commissioner Juncker and everyone involved in the development of the European Commission app. While Premier Whiteford and I provided some input into the app's development, the initial idea and majority of the work has been undertaken by Commissioner Juncker, who has been very busy with this project.

The app will be vital in creating a clear communications channel between my Foreign Affairs Office and the wider European public. Similarly to the Internal Affairs Office, you will be allowed to access my agenda, news from my office, interviews which I have given and so on. Furthermore, you will be able to access the Foreign Affairs dispatches which I will be publishing monthly, which will serve as monthly updates for our foreign allies to keep up-to-date on the happenings of the European Union. Likewise, my office will also make the news dispatches of our foreign allies, such as the 10,000 Islands, available under the Foreign Affairs Commissioner section of the app.

I look forward to any questions you may have. But first, let me defer to the Premier. Thank you.

[Icholasen]

Thank you Antoni. Good afternoon everyone.

One valid critique that is often brought up in regards to the European Commission is lack of accountability, news, and activity. I think this app, championed by Commission Juncker is great and will be an amazing tool to keep people updated on the inner working of the EU Commission.

I will be making updates on the app, on twitter, and also via my press portal in order to keep everyone up to date with what is going on in the Premier Commissioner's office.

Thank you.

[Spain]

Thank you Eilidh.

Now journalists can ask any of us questions about this or any other thing that they would like to ask. If someone wants to ask, just raise you hand and our assistant will give you a microphone so we can hear you. Thank you everyone.

OCC: 24h for questions.

[Spain]

As I see there are not any questions, this Press Conference has ended. Thank you for your assistance.