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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Something that may help to put under the noses of
ministers, MPs, councillors etc –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Culture &
Education Committee of the European Parliament commissioned a report on </span></font><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial'>The State of
Community Media in the European<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><st1:place w:st="on"><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Union</span></font></st1:place><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>which we put
in the references at the end of our report on the Funding and Funding Voices
Colloquium (<a href="http://www.communitymedia.eu/">http://www.communitymedia.eu/</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>You can see the report at </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?file=17791">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?file=17791</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Much more succinct is what an Austrian MEP and
journalist, Karin Resetarits, put together see <a
href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-402.919+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-402.919+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN</a>
with suggested amendments (some by the CMFE) at <a
href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-404.766+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-404.766+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
membership of this committee (<a
href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/membersCom.do?language=EN&body=CULT">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/membersCom.do?language=EN&body=CULT</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>isn’t especially brilliant, but I will contact
the Labour member about it, because vthe report gets debated in the EP on June 2
and 3 if I havethe dates right, Mon and Tue of that week.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Good luck with lobbying!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Peter M. Lewis<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Senior Lecturer in Community Media<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Department of Applied Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Metropolitan</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Department of Media and Communications</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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of Economics</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Met: </span></font><a href="mailto:p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk"><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk</span></font></a><font
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/dass/"><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/dass/</span></font></a></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.communitymedia.eu/"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>http://www.communitymedia.eu/</span></font></a></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
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