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The European Parliament, Council and Commission have issued a joint statement on digital rights and principles for the decade 2020-2030.

New York City is transforming its famous logo to express the collective commitment of New Yorkers to their city. This graphic identity is designed to contribute to the renewal of the city affected by the recent pandemic.

“Promoting public communication in Morocco”. This is the mission of the Moroccan Association for Public and Regional Communication (AMCP), which is in the process of being set up.

Where better than Strasbourg to discuss public communication at European level? At the Forum on 16 November last year, six speeches gave an overview of the issues involved in communication in and with the European Union.

A Swedish public transport operator is bringing statistics on CO2 emissions to life, by stacking up electric and fossil fuel cars in a campaign to promote the environmental benefit of collective transport.

Commonality visited Mamoudzou, the economic capital of Mayotte, an island off the east coast of the African continent, close to Madagascar. Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France. During the visit, a meeting with public communicators led to an interesting and constructive debate, revealing the conditions under which they work.

There are only a few organisations representing local public communicators. This is because in many countries the existence – or recognition – of this form of communication in local areas is not immediately evident, and the needs are not as great as they are in France. Talking about this with our Italian colleagues, who work in a public space comparable to that of France, is therefore always interesting. We interviewed Leda Guidi, President of Compubblica, the Italian association for public and institutional communication.

Three noteworthy initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa reflect the gradual structuring of the profession of public communicator. In Guinea, Togo and Cameroon, public communication is becoming more professional to support the objectives of “open governance”.

Following a Public Communication Forum in Strasbourg that focused on Europe’s territorial challenges, Commonality interviewed Raffaella De Marte, Head of Media Services at the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Communication, on the intersecting roles of communicators at these different levels and on the challenges for citizens that lie ahead.

While the Made in France trade fair was being held in Paris in mid-November, the focus was on Made in Local.

Last week, the Club of Venice held its plenary meeting, which was entirely given over to the new challenges of public communication across Europe. Participants agreed that there is a need to significantly strengthen the skills of communicators and improve how they share best practices.

Our colleagues from the Walloon association of public communicators, WB Com, organised a one-day event on territorial marketing on 22 September in the heart of a city undergoing major changes: Liège. Ten speakers added a very interesting forward-looking perspective to this meeting.

WWF Germany wanted to convince the general public of the importance of protecting the forests with a film that was both poignant and compassionate. The film breaks the mould of nature conservation films by using the language of the heart. Dr Susanne Winter, who led the project, explains her approach.

A group of public communication experts from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently held its first face-to-face meeting at the organisation’s headquarters in Paris. Over the course of two days, the participants, including a representative from Cap’Com, explored new approaches to citizen dialogue. They saw presentations of examples from very different backgrounds. France, represented by the Government Information Service, presented its initiatives on inclusion, a topic covered by its director, Michaël Nathan, in closing.

Public communicators want to be heard by citizens; they want to be listened to! A few days after the EuroPCom, Philippe Caroyez, drawing on his experience in the Belgian civil service, asks us: how can we approach public communication in a more humanistic way?

To encourage residents to get around by bike, Brussels Mobility has launched BrusselsFit, the largest open-air gym in the country.

The conference of the Club of Venice was held on 30th of June and 1st of July in Fiesole (Italy) and allowed a hundred or so European government communicators and specialists. They took stock of the strategies implemented during the current crisis. They agreed on the need to share good practices and to increase the skills of public communicators.

As his country entered tough news due to the neighboring conflict in Ukraine, Commonality interviewed George Surugiu, Senior communication advisor at the General secretariat of the government, Romania. He answered our questions about his profession, the approach in Bucharest to citizen issues and the current crisis.

The tenth edition of the Deauville Green Awards has just taken place, underscoring the sheer energy and drive of the cinema and film community in its effort to promote the socio-environmental transition. Over and above the major general-interest, awareness-raising productions and the more special-interest, expert issues, this edition has spotlighted the power of emotion as a driver for learning on an individual level. An awareness driver, ideal for this medium.

Migration narratives are shaped at three levels of governance: international, national and local. Among all three, local communication can scale-up perceptions thanks to its proximity to citizens. How do actors operate at the different levels craft and disseminate migration narratives? How do these actors interact with one another? How does this interaction impact policymaking?