The European (newspaper)

The European was one of 1990 appearing to 1998 British than European -based weekly newspaper.

The European was founded in 1990 by British publisher Robert Maxwell. First, a daily newspaper was planned with a circulation of 650,000 copies, the European was eventually published as a weekly newspaper. He should be the first "European" print publication, ie be focused in coverage not to a particular country, but to the European Union and evenly to the individual Member States. According to the newspaper was subtitled "Europe's first national newspaper ." The circulation reached the figure of 180,000 copies in the tip. In 1992, the journal was taken over by the British businessmen David and Frederick Barclay and henceforth appeared in tabloid format. Target group of the European was most recently more and more European business elite. In 1998 the newspaper was finally set. The initial project of the founder, to create a European newspaper had failed. The demand for European news in English was low outside Britain. The journalist Andrew Cusack wrote this: "There Remained a never- solved existential dilemma at the heart of The European - " Europe's national newspaper " - that what it impossible to be the national newspaper of a nation did does not exist. "