‘I’m really happy I’ve won’ said Conor Slowey, winner of the 2009 EIA/Europe Direct Leeds student essay competition.
Writing on the theme ‘Communicating Europe: Is the EU getting through to you?’, Conor – a final year student of Law and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast – argues that the European Commission should use the mainstream media to create awareness of its policies and to spark debates on them.
Responding to the news that he’d won the £200 prize, Conor said: ‘As a citizen, I’d like to see more engagement from the Commission in the mainstream media – I think that a more political Commission that fights its corner on today’s big issues would reach more people and make European politics and issues more relevant to people’s lives.’
Selected by a panel of EU information experts, the top three essays in this new competition were submitted by:
Conor Slowey, Queen’s University Belfast (First)
Nathan Woodcock, University of Leicester (Second)
Ana Catarina Marques da Silva, University of Coimbra (Third)
All three essays are now available on the websites of both the European Information Association (EIA) and Europe Direct Leeds.