In this section you can find a provisional list of all the events in which DG MEME took part, including the interviews that were released. Do you want to invite me as speaker? Write to dirgen at dg-meme dot eu
Events with DG MEME
- 20 July 2024 – DG MEME at Colours of Ostrava by Europe Square
- 15 July 2024 – DG MEME att Czech Embassy in Vienna
- 29 May 2024 – Coffee & Memes with Ursula von der Leyen (at Lloyd Coffee Eatery)
- 28 May 2024 – Can the EU be fun? (DMA Team Building DG CNECT / DG COMP)
- 03 May 2024 – EU Elections 2024 for Mobile Citizens (DG JUST, Brussels)
- 22 April 2024 – Data-driven Communication with memes (Swiss RE, online)
- 09 April 2024 – European Elections, between memes and reality (College of Europe Alumni Association, Brussels)
- 15 Mar 2024 – The EU explained through memes (at Voices, Florence)
- 21 Feb 2024 – Dietro le Quinte di… DG MEME (at Europe Experience, Rome)
- 11 Jan 2024 – Rethink Europe (organized by the Representation of the European Commission to the Czech Republic, Prague)
- 12 Jul 2023 – Memes, the Common Language of the European Public Sphere? (REDICO, Mainz University, online)
- 26 Jun 2023 – Freedom of speech vs. your feelings: the importance of satire in modern democracies (at EuroPcom 2023, Brussels)
- 27 Apr 2023 – Laughing at EU – with MEP Assistant and DG MEME (MUST & Partners, Brussels)
- 14 Jul 2022 – The European Union explained with memes (at Colors of Ostrava, Ostrava)
- 02 Jul 2022 – DG MEME @ European Parliament (organized by the European Pirate Party, Brussels)
- 21 Oct 2021 – Comunicare l’Europa tra realtà e DG MEME (organized by Alumni Bocconi, Brussels)
- 05 Dec 2019 – 500 days of DG MEME (Iosono Wine Bar, Brussels)
- 07 Nov 2019 – EuroPcom 2019 (Committee of the Regions, Brussels)
Articles and Interviews about DG MEME
- 13 July 2024 – Váš Pavel je jako Chuck Norris, skvěle se o něm dělají vtípky, říká hvězdný satirik (Aktualne.cz)
- 06 June 2024 – La Dirección General de MEMES: la parte más gamberra de la Unión Europea (Compolitica, page 24)
- 05 June 2024 – European Elections 2024: Ursula’s eyes, Vestager’s tea and the Sofagate, also in Greek (original) (ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ)
- 12 May 2024 – Česká televize (Newsroom ČT24, see full video)
- 18 Apr 2024 – DG MEME mentioned on Greek National TV (ERT)
- 13 Oct 2023 – DG MEME mentioned on Italian TV (Propaganda Live)
- 31 Jul 2023 – Eurocrats call me troublemaker, also in Czech (original), French, German and Slovak (EURACTIV)
- 10 Apr 2023 – Interview on Czech radio, Nápady na vtipy o Unii mi nedocházejí, říká autor vtipů ze stránky DG MEME (iROZHLAS)
- 12 Dec 2022 – DG MEME mentioned on Lithuanian TV ( Labas Rytas, Lietuva)
- 03 Dec 2022 – La vera lingua comune dell’Unione Europea è il meme (Linkiesta)
- 01 Oct 2020 – Meme until you dream it: how to communicate the EU we love (Europe&Me)
- 21 Apr 2020 – La pagina Facebook che prende in giro l’Europa a colpi di meme (Linkiesta)
- 07 Nov 2019 – Se l’Europa è un meme (Il Foglio)
- 16 Oct 2019 – The Imitation Game, a Paper by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
- 22 Oct 2019 – Inside the Commission’s satire department (POLITICO Europe)
DG MEME also interviewed
- July 2024 – MEUA Martin Dvořák – Protests, diplomacy and the EU
- June 2024 – Cssr Nicolas Schmit – Mr. Schmit goes to Europe – a beer with the Socialists’ lead candidate
- Apr 2024 – MFA Gabrielius Landsbergis – A Family between War and Peace
- Apr 2024 – VP Margaritis Schinas – I’ve got you under my Schinas
- Jan 2024 – Cssr Janez Lenarčič, EUmanitarian Aid
- Oct 2023 – EVP Valdis Dombrovskis, Quo Va(l)dis?
- Feb 2023 – EVP Margrethe Vestager, Memories of a Vestagiaire
- Aug 2022 – Laimutė Pilukaitė, Along the Baltic Way’s memory lane
- Dec 2020 – Peter Wilding, In the beginning was the Word: conversation with the creator of the term Brexit