The European (newspaper)
The European was a British weekly newspaper that appeared from 1990 to 1998 and was designed as a European newspaper.
The European was founded in 1990 by British publisher Robert Maxwell . Initially, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 650,000 was planned, but the European was eventually published as a weekly newspaper. It should be the first European print publication, i. H. The reporting should not be focused on a specific country, but on the European Union and equally on its individual member states. Accordingly, the newspaper had the subtitle “Europe's first national newspaper”. The circulation reached the number of 180,000 copies. In 1992 the paper was taken over by the British businessmen David and Frederick Barclay and from then on appeared in tabloid format . The target group of the European has recently increasingly been the European business elite. In 1998 the newspaper was finally shut down. The founder's original project to create a European newspaper had failed. Demand for European news in English was low outside of Britain. Journalist Andrew Cusack pointed out that the newspaper's "existential dilemma" was "that it was impossible to be the national newspaper of a nation that did not exist."
Web links
- The life & death of The European . norumbega.co.uk
- Robert Maxwell's The European . magforum.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ “ There remained a never-solved existential dilemma at the heart of The European - 'Europe's national newspaper' - that it was impossible to be the national newspaper of a nation that doesn't exist. "( The life & death of The European . ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Norumbega .co.uk)
