Welcome to the European Commission´s Audiovisual Services! We are the EU related news and archive service providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the media. We supply up to the minute audiovisual news coverage to the media around the world and deliver unique archive on the history of the EU.
We offer video, photo and sound coverage of European news. We also provide assistance for journalists wishing to cover EU subjects. Get the sights and sounds of Europe directly onto your screen via the Internet and via Europe by Satellite. All our materials are available in professional standards. European audiovisual material dating from the 1940s is also available.
We supply unbiased and reliable news services to broadcasters, news agencies, written press, and anyone who seeks to spread information on the activities carried out by the European Commission and other EU institutions.
On this site, we provide an overview of the products and distribution means on offer, as well as the technical services available in Brussels.
We are committed to expanding and adapting our products and services in order to offer you information you can trust because of its depth and its breadth, its speed and its accuracy. Information that is easy to find and to use, in fact, the information that you need.

Fabrizia DE ROSA

Head of the Audiovisual Services

Directorate-General Communication