Press release from the European Alliance of Press Agencies Athens News Agency´s Chief Executive re-elected President for European Alliance of Press Agencies

Andreas Christodoulides, director general of Athens News Agency (ANA), has been re-elected as president of the European Alliance of Press Agencies (EAPA) for one year.

Besides Mr. Christodoulides the following are members of EAPA´s board: Tadej Labernik, director general and chief editor of the Slovenian news agency STA, Uffe Riis Sorensen, managing director and chief editor of the Danish news agency Ritzaus Bureau, Paul Tesselaar, managing director of the Dutch news agency ANP and the EAPA secretary general Erik Nylén.

The European Alliance of Press Agencies was founded in 1956. 28 European news agencies are members. The annual meeting in Athens was held in connection with a management seminar on copyright. The first speakers at the seminar were Joerg Reinbothe, Head of the European Commission´s directorate for copyright and related rights and professor Thomas Dreier, University of Karlsruhe, both commenting on the new EU-directive on harmonisation of copyright laws in the Information Society. Among the other speakers at the seminar were Louise Cole, company lawyer at Press Association (PA), London, PA´s legal adviser Rachel Boothroyd and the Dutch news agency ANP´s legal adviser Joris van Manen.

For more information please contact:
Andreas Christodoulides, Athens News Agency, tel +30 1 6400560, e-mail christod@ana.gr or

Erik Nylén, EAPA, tel +46 8 301324, mobile +46 8 739 865272, e-mail erik-n@telia.com