Influence of Media in EU political security issues?

• Author: Jeton Kelmendi
• Position: Academy of Science and Arts of Europe, Salzburg Austria
• Pages: 151-157

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ISSN 2410-759X

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Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania Vol. 1 No. 3

January 2016

Influence of Media in EU political security issues?

Acad. Jeton Kelmendi

Academy of Science and Arts of Europe, Salzburg Austria

Abstract

The influence of media in Security Politics of EU exists and the aim of this paper is to

prove that media has influence and in what way. The analysis is in part theoretical and

in part based on a survey carried out on journalists. The results show the opinion of

journalists as well as the kind of media used by various groups and their diverse

influences. It should be noted that the outcome to the question raised in the subject

matter is that media influences opinion within the European Union and affects EU security

politics.This role of media is analysed in this paper and it shows that the influence is

present in different ways.

Keywords: EU, Security, institutions, terrorist and politics.

Introduction

From the outset of the EU’s existence the main aim of the EU projectwas to bring

about a post World War I and II normalisationof good relations between two former

enemies, the Germanand French people.Security was thereflore of utmost importance.

Over thedecades this project evolved into our present day European Union, which

functions on the basis of the Lisbon Treaty and istotally different to what it was at

the beginning. Over the years asuccession of EU Treaties have regulated both internal

and external realtions. After some enlargements, the European Union now has 28

Member States made up of about 500 milion peoples and security has now of course

become one of its most important issues (EU official website). The EU can be

considered as a kind of confederation but only to a certain degree, since each Member

State has its own local and national institutions to deal with security matters:

such as the army, police, secret service etc, but the EU also keeps an eye on security.

A major ambition of the European Union is to promote european values and to

ensure it functions as a Single Market, which defacto makes it the largest economy

in the World. The Europen Union functionsas an organisation made up of different

EU institutions, where every Member State has had to hand overto it some of its

competencies, thusgiving it a certain amount of autonomyaccording to the expert

of EU integrations Prof. Avni Mazreku (Mazreku, A 2015). In reality thepolicies of

the EU and its institutions have made much progress since their foundation, but

still need to evolve further.In order to uphold this opinion it is important to analyse

the EU’s external actions and the stance of the european people with regard to

external and security issues.

Institutions of the European Union

The EU is made up of 14 institutions/bodies, which perform itsdaily functionsand

is not a typical international organisation andneither can it be considered asa