Veiled girl: finally a “political control” of EU images

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The image of the veiled girl broadcast by the European Commission shocked. From now on, the cabinet of Ursula von der Leyen will exercise a control before diffusion.

By Emmanuel Berretta

VS’is the blunder too much! The European Commission was shaken by the dissemination by its services of a visual on Twitter featuring a veiled girl for the promotion of the European program Erasmus +. “An administrative error”, she pleaded following the general bronca. Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the Commission, has decided that in the future the publication of the visuals of the institution will have to be subject to “political control”. It is the office of the president who will validate the images promoting the action of the Commission.

Clearly, this means that Ursula von der Leyen can no longer trust her services. In this case, the visual of the girl was released by the Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC), headed by the Cypriot…

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