The national winners of the European Union prize for Young Journalists will travel to Berlin to begin the journey of award and attend the final conference in celebration of their success and, while looking back over the past 20 years since the fall of Berlin Wall. The European Young Journalist Award is one of the biggest competitions pan-European level of this type. The competition was open to young writers between 17 and 35 years of EU Member States and candidate and potential candidates, and this year over 600 projects have been received.

"Enlarge your vision" was the title of this year's European Award for Young Journalists, which have jointly organized the DG Enlargement of the European Commission, the European Youth Press and the Café Babel.

The 35 winners, one from each participating country (the 27 Member States, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Turkey and Kosovo) have begun a journey to Berlin in the year that marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the iron curtain symbolised by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It is also the fifth anniversary of the entry into the EU of the eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Malta and Cyprus.

The winning articles of the contest are available on its website.