AGERPRES Director General Giboi nominated by six European agencies to run for EANA Secretary General

AGERPRES Director General Alexandru Giboi was nominated as candidate for the Secretary General position of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).

According to the EANA statutes, in order to become a candidate for this position, the nomination of at least three member agencies is needed and Alexandru Giboi was nominated by the following agencies: BTA (Bulgaria), CNA (Cyprus), ANA-MPA (Greece), ATA (Albania), FENA (Bosnia and Herzegovina), TASR (Slovakia), alongside AGERPRES Romanian National News Agency.

Currently, Alexandru Giboi is a member in the EANA Board, elected in September 2015, but he also holds the Secretary General position of the Association of the Balkan News Agencies - Southeast Europe (ABNA), being elected for a second mandate in September 2016.

This autumn's elections will take place after the current Secretary General completes his mandate, namely Erik Nylen, who is a mass-media expert with a vast experience. Prior to taking over the Secretary General position of the EANA, he also was CEO of Sweden's TT News Agency.

Also running for the Secretary General position of the EANA is Poland's Lidia Sobanska, who is endorsed by three news agencies.

For the first time in the EANA history, the Spring Conference of the Alliance will take place in Bucharest, in April 2018, at the invitation of AGERPRES Romanian National News Agency. AGERPRES (RO - author: Daniel Popescu, editor: Florin Marin; EN - author: Rodica State, editor: Adina Panaitescu)