Gérard Askinazi

🚀 Crafting impactful press releases: essential strategies for European associations A well-crafted press release is more than just a news delivery tool—it's a chance for European associations to reinforce their influence and credibility within a crowded media landscape. At #inextremis, we work with communication leaders to shape press releases that capture their organisation's essence and resonate with journalists. Are you looking to optimise your press release strategy? Discover how headlines, structured content, and targeted messaging can make all the difference. 📈 👉 Read the full article for insights on maximising press impact on our website: https://lnkd.in/egD2_PtN #MediaRelations #EUAssociations #Communications #MyPartnerAgency

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The risk is real. We might not detect it, because the shift happens via small, discreet changes, or because it is hidden in the flow of news and upset that have grabbed the headlines over the last, incredibly busy, months. But yet, as citizens in general but also as PR specialists and professionals interacting with decisions-makers, it is vital to always be so vigilant at the freedom of our press. It does not only happen to others, as they say. #PublicAffairs #PublicRelations #Mediarelations https://lnkd.in/e6U7JDdH

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Summit of Minds 2024 I had the privilege to attend the 10th edition of the #SummitOfMinds, an event hosted by Thierry Malleret and the Monthly Barometer in #Chamonix, featuring an impressive cast of multi-disciplinary experts and forward thinkers. I feel compelled to share a few insights to shed light on our increasingly complex world (disclaimer: the following statements are my own and based on my personal interpretation). #EUOutlook:   - The EU faces fragmentation due to political divergence and the rise of far-right populism, which opposes deeper EU integration. This threatens both economic stability and social cohesion within the union.   - As underlined by the #Draghireport, the EU's reliance on trade policies and its lack of cohesive industrial policies pose an existential risk. We need to invest as much as €800B and join forces on #greentechnology, #biotechnology and #defense if we don't want to be outpaced by the more aggressive strategies of the US and China. The EU's traditional economic tools are outdated and massive innovation is seen as the only driver of long-term resilience. - EU enlargement is also a challenge, requiring substantial institutional reform to manage new members effectively while maintaining the integrity of existing structures. The transition to a majority vote would be needed but is unlikely as it requires... unanimity. #MiddleEastOutlook:   - The US remains a dominant force in the Middle East, although its influence is waning. The risk of a major conflict involving Iran or the US is low, as neither side is eager for escalation.   - Israel’s internal divisions still exist but after October 7th, the national sentiment and need for security preveils.   - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to be a deeply unresolved issue. The two-state solution appears increasingly detached from reality. #RussiaOutlook:   - Russia is unlikely to achieve its goals in Ukraine. If the war persists, it could end up in a situation similar to North Korea, isolated and dependent on China.   - The possibility of regime change in Russia exists, but for now, the country remains shielded by internal propaganda and a totally rotten system. - Russia's long-term outlook remains grim as it doesn't address existential challenges such as economic dependency on fossil fuels and demographic decline. #GlobalMultilateralism: - We live in a multicivilization world and while the rest of the world (80% of the population) may look like us superficially in the way they dress and consume, they think very diffe­rently.   - The UN are at a crossroads, with increasing calls for reform, particularly concerning the power dynamics of the Security Council, still dominated by "Western" countries while emerging powers demand greater influence - Europe's understanding of multilateralism could play a crucial role in shaping future frameworks as US is obsessed with China. To be continued... Photo Credit: Mylène Haudebourg

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France at the verge of civil war but how? The far-right National Rally (RN) is still way ahead in the polls, and now there is a left-wing alliance – whose main component is the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) – that is poised to come second. The likeliest outcomes are either an outright RN majority – and so a far-right government – or a hung parliament that spells paralysis. Either way, says Baverez, the risks are threefold: first, a crisis of France’s sovereign debt, as the markets defy the French government much as they did the UK’s erstwhile Prime Minister Liz Truss. Second, violence on the street. And third, institutional collapse. “Our Fifth Republic was designed to get us through crises. But we are in a very unstable situation. The citizens are lost because the president himself is lost, so we may have a brutal break-up of the institutions.” https://lnkd.in/dF94gD6P

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📢 Today, the world's attention once again turns to Italian leadership, but not for the reasons we'd hope. Italian journalists from RAI, the state-run media, have taken a bold stand against what they describe as an increasingly repressive environment for media under the Fratelli d’Italia government. 🚫 This 24-hour strike highlights the growing concerns over threats to press freedom and expression in Italy. From criminal investigations targeting journalists to suspected instances of censorship, the alarm bells are ringing loud and clear. 🌍 These actions come in the wake of Italy's alarming drop in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. Plunging five places to No. 46 out of 180, Italy now shares the "problematic" category with EU counterparts Poland and Hungary. 😔 It's disheartening to witness a democratic nation forfeit its fundamental rights. Let's not forget: Criminalizing criticism against public officials violates the bedrock of freedom of expression, as safeguarded by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In a world where the media serves as a watchdog for democracy, preserving freedom of speech isn't just an option; it's imperative. #PressFreedom #FreedomOfSpeech #Italy 🇮🇹📰 https://lnkd.in/deKgKeuE

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#Paris2024 - What's love got to do with it? The Olympic games have started with a spectacularly queer opening ceremony in Paris, orchestrated by the artistic director Thomas Jolly. It has been an attempt to narrate France's history as one that, by many fights, lead to progress, equal rights (women, LGBTQ and black people), and the culturual richness of diversity. It was a beautiful representation of the diversity of art forms, the diversity of French society, and the "Olympic spirit" of bringing people around the world peacefully together - with sports as a force that can bring out our best. The controversy of the parody on the last supper by drag queens, as well as the omittance of France's other dark sides of history besides the revolution (colonialism - the reason why nation-states are actually represented in Paris; and fascism) however leaves me with a strange after-taste. While art should always remain free, even to provoke, I think that Jolly's goal for "everybody to feel represented" has failed. The Christian church has doubtlessly created endless suffering, including to LGBTQ people. But turning that hate now around by mocking Christians is for me undigested trauma. The Western LGBTQ identity has been one of otherness, a mostly "negative" identity stemming from discrimination - and this may also be its major problem today. Just like Christians, theoretically at least, the LGBTIQ movement is about love. How much love do we however practice if, from whatever side, we nurture hate, exclusion, and ignorance of others' perspectives, as uncomfortable as they may be? Paradoxcially perhaps, both the #LGBTIQ movement and Christian religion seem to be at a turning point. In a world full of hate, and where their narratives face starch resistance, they may both have a need to go back to the sources of the wisdoms they could hold. How can we create spaces in which such perspectives can actually communicate to be truly inclusive? And what story of coming to peace would we write if it was really made with love? "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3 #LGBT #Christianism #Communications

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This was an interesting session with great contributions. I emphasized what I believe should be some key features of the new Commission's regulatory work: innovation-oriented; sanity, efficiency and consistency checks for relevant existing regulations; inclusiveness objectives to overcome the digital divide and to minimise the costs of the energy transition.

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📢 🇫🇷 📻 Arcom's White Paper on the future of radio 📜 On 17 June, French regulator Arcom released a White Paper on the future of radio ▶ Aim: adapt French radio model to new environment + propose clear strategy for migration to all-digital radio IP and DAB+ ▶ Objectives: 1. Set up state of play of French radio landscape  2. Identify stakeholders needs (=for shared vision of future) 3. Provide guidelines to build modernised framework 4. Identify challenges ▶ Methodology: Consultations & interviews with stakeholders ✅ Key findings: - Current radio model undermined but resilient  - Need for sector to adapt to technologies & consumption habits - Identified pitfalls: business model, cost of change for consumers, market concentration & unequal access to radio ✅ Arcom's response: A 2-phased roadmap ✔ 2024-2027: new radio framework for conducive environment for migration ✔ 2028-2033: support stakeholders in shift 💡 Foreign regulators & foreign players actively involved in switching from FM to DAB+ were also interviewed. The UK Digital Radio and Audio Review 2021 was an inspiration

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#EUnetCCC | Collaborating to advance cancer care across Europe! We are delighted to rely on the unique expertise of the French National Authority of Health (HAS) as a key partner in the EUnetCCC project. Together with 31 countries, we are building a European Network of Comprehensive Cancer Centers to ensure equal access to high-quality cancer care for all European citizens. The HAS is leading the way in developing an innovative European certification scheme, in collaboration with esteemed partners: Unicancer, Fédération hospitalière de France (FHF), Alleanza Contro il Cancro, Oslo universitetssykehus, Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO), Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft e. V. (DKG), Technische Universität Dresden, NIZP PZH-PIB, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu, and VUL Santaros klinikos. 🎯 Key goals: Guaranteeing that all European citizens, regardless of where they live, can access the best cancer care Europe has to offer. Creating a network of excellence in oncology to address today’s challenges and prepare for the future. 👉 Discover how the HAS is driving innovation and shaping this vital initiative: [link to the original post].

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5 questions about Art Basel’s strategy, and the fair ecosystem in a choppy market, with Clément Delépine.

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🎥 Last Friday, I had the honor of being invited to the BFM Business morning show to discuss women's cancers and Primaa’s vision for the future of AI in the medical field. Beyond just sharing Primaa’s latest developments, I highlighted our core convictions about how AI can revolutionize healthcare, and particularly pathology: 1️⃣ Relieving overburdened medical services, helping them process more cases with greater speed and efficiency 2️⃣ Reducing inter-observer variability, which can impact patient treatment, ensuring more consistent diagnoses 3️⃣ Disseminating world-class expertise and excellence in care to all regions, ensuring equal access to advanced medical diagnostics 🔴 At a time when budget cuts are being rolled out with the implementation of the new fiscal plan, it's crucial to remember how deeptech startups, especially in the medical field, have thrived thanks to the supportive ecosystem. Some of the proposed measures, such as the elimination of young innovative company (JEI) exemptions and the discontinuation of the innovation tax credit (CII), risk stalling the progress of these crucial innovations... 🔗 Watch the full interview here ➡️: https://lnkd.in/ekAJXjeS #BFMBusiness #Primaa #AI #FannySockeel #WomensHealth #DeepTech #CleoBreast #Pathology #HealthcareInnovation #AIinMedicine #digitalpathology #frenchtech Paul Midy

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If nature could speak, perhaps this is how it would sound. Debussy: La Mer (The Sea) "De l'aube à midi sur la mer" (from dawn to midday on the sea); "Jeux de vagues" (Play of the Waves); "Dialogue du vent et de la mer" (Dialogue of the wind and the sea). An orchestral composition by Claude Debussy, this musical soundscape was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 on the English Channel coast in Eastbourne. Debussy captures the wisdom of the sea and the worlds within it, connecting the hearts and minds of all who have heard it since its first performance. A perfect moment to reflect on the beauty of art, music, and nature, and how collective impact is best made together—just as the most beautiful music is played together. The ocean is the heart of the Earth's climate system. It regulates the climate, and supports countless species, including us. Protecting, and rehabilitating our oceans is essential to addressing climate change. What simple action can you take today to protect our oceans? Consider reducing single-use plastics, supporting sustainable seafood, or participating in local clean-up efforts. What ideas do you have as you listen? Please, comment below. #ClimateChange #OceanConservation #CollectiveImpact #Debussy #LaMer #NatureSpeaks #Inspiration https://lnkd.in/dv-h5w3R

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Summer readings: In 1974, Le Figaro journalist Jean Chalon asked author Marguerite Yourcenar why she was pessimistic. Her answer: “It's as if a young journalist doesn't have the time to see the true reality under the news. Air, land, and water pollution; the extraordinary waste and already the scarcity of this or that; 5,000 tons of mercury transferred annually from continents into the oceans; 80 percent of lakes around Stockholm have become dead seas; the Mediterranean is a dead sea along much of its coastline; dead seas, or those becoming such, large lakes in North America; the Rhine transformed into a "purulent sore"; forests deforested by war or destroyed by over-exploitation; hundreds of animal and plant species extinct or endangered by the year; that's the planetary report. For the human report (if man can separate himself from the planet he lives on and at this moment is killing), an overpopulation turning man into the primary material ("expandable") for future wars; the apartheid, the genocide, and the flourishing concentration regimes here and there in all parts of the world; billions annually spent to maintain the hideous atomic equilibrium and to stockpile future war materials of chemical weapons, a tenth of which would suffice to annihilate the human race; the mass media providing and often as a show offering violence; imposture and commercial rivalry set up as dogma; the coordinated disappearance of craftspeople and free small traders in favor of "chains" which are indeed chains; systemic waste, aggressiveness to the extreme, confusion in all structures, from established religions to business offices: "You think you are progressing because you are devouring your reserves," said, some forty years ago, a character in *Point Counter Point* by Aldous Huxley. Less clear-sighted than this sage ahead of his time, I still believed, at the time I was finishing *Mémoires d'Hadrien*, that a good spirit or a group of good spirits could reorganize our chaos. After twenty-three years, each of which represented a deaf aggravation on the previous one, I no longer believe that there are free choices and life views. This change has occurred for a certain number — a small number — of minds among us, who know that man, at no time, has found himself in front of options as formidable as those of today, and who unfortunately don't ignore that not only because of these options, but because the time for free choice has already passed. This change in minds and viewpoints will it occur in the masses before they are forced to face harsh realities? We would like to believe it, but it would be necessary, to achieve it, a revolution as profound (and as complete) as those who have reformed our views on death or Buddhism. We must act as if we believed in such a revolution, but to add faith to it, if the question is asked of us, would be to assume the existence of a "fatality of good". Until now, the "fatality of good" has never manifested itself in human affairs.”

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VO Group led by Alexandre Velleuer and Xavier Vincent simplifies its structure around three pillars: the historic event agency VO Event, the agency specializing in European affairs, VO EUROPE, and the creative agency The Little Voice. As a reminder, it is led by a trio: Philippe De Wulf (General Manager), Lacourt Laurie (Executive Creative Director) and Nicolas Vanderseypen (Digital Manager). It is also a trio that runs VO Europe with Michael Malengrez (General Manager), Gaëlle Pellon (Head of EU Strategy & Business Development) and Babak Hosseiny (Executive Creative Director). Finally, VO Event is placed under the direction of Isabelle De Schryver with Fabian Vanhouche at her side for creation, Guillaume Anciaux for operations and Wim Nicolaï as Bid Manager. Read more in French 👉https://lnkd.in/e992PHNf Read more in Dutch 👉https://lnkd.in/e3raYkAF Credits for the video 👉 Lacourt Laurie, Fabian Vanhouche, Babak Hosseiny, Radikal Production, Kevin Frilet and Louis Finn.

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