Chair: Bart CAMMAERTS (LSE - UK)

Welcome by Carl BECART (Residence Palace), Giuseppe ZAFFUTO (EJC) and George TERZIS (Vesalius College), our hosts

Opening Speech by François HEINDERYCKX (President of ECREA, ULB - Belgium)

Keynote Panel:

Ruth HIERONYMI (Member of the European Parliament - Germany)

European media policy and the audiovisual media services directive

Uwe HASEBRINK (Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung - Germany)

Equal Opportunities for Whom? How researchers and politicians construct citizens, media users, and audiences

Andrew CALABRESE (University of Colorado – US)

Equality of Opportunity as the Justification of Injustice

Claudia PADOVANI (University of Padova – Italy)

Opportunities for Social Mobilizations around Communication Rights in Europe. A research agenda