Project Syndicate

The Project Syndicate is an international non -profit organization based in Prague, in the claims to currently over 430 newspapers and magazines are from 150 countries together with a total circulation of almost 70 million copies.

Purpose

The Syndicate distributed worldwide every year hundreds of comments that have been written by authoritative writers, scientists, politicians and political activists. It leaves the English texts into the following seven languages ​​Translate to: Arabic, Chinese, German, French, Russian, Spanish and Czech. Weak financial newspapers in developing countries receive these services free of charge. In order for the Project Syndicate would like to encourage the development of independent press around the world.

Financing

The Syndicate is funded by contributions from its members in the industrialized countries and from grants from private foundations such as in particular the Open Society Institute ( George Soros ). In Germany, among others promoted the " Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation " the work of the organization.

Members in German-speaking

• Germany: stock exchange newspaper, Financial Times Germany (show in December 2012 set ), Germania Plus, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The World and Business Week
• Austria: stock exchange Courier, The Press, the monthly magazine Raison, The Standard and the English-language newspaper The Vienna Review
• Switzerland: L' Agefi (French), The Bund, Tages-Anzeiger and Le Temps (French).

Prominent writers

Prominent writers syndicate were and are Ban Ki -moon, Ian Buruma, Jimmy Carter, Ralf Dahrendorf, Uffe Ellemann -Jensen, Joschka Fischer, Timothy Garton Ash, Mikhail Gorbachev, Václav Havel, Bjørn Lomborg, Dominique Moïsi, Joseph Nye, Chris Patten, Michel Rocard, Nouriel Roubini, Jeffrey Sachs, George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz and Yulia Tymoshenko.