Big global audience for EU accession celebrations

Twenty-nine countries have so far confirmed they will be screening Malta's EU celebrations on April 30. WelcomEurope chairman Lou Bondì said television interest in the historic event was growing and that between 750 million and one billion people...

Twenty-nine countries have so far confirmed they will be screening Malta's EU celebrations on April 30.

WelcomEurope chairman Lou Bondì said television interest in the historic event was growing and that between 750 million and one billion people worldwide were expected to watch the events on television.

Television stations from CT2 in the Czech Republic to NRK2 in Norway to KBS in Korea have already signed on for the event.

The European Broadcasting Union has agreed to air 15 minutes of the celebrations in Malta, after airing two minutes live from the other nine EU acceding countries.

Grand Harbour is set to be transformed into a spectacle of colour on the night when projection artist Ross Ashton produces an architectural light show.

A light, laser and pyrotechnic show by German artist Gert Hof, responsible for the organisation of the millennium celebration in Berlin, will then follow, linked to a 15-minute snippet of Ca Ira, the long-awaited opera by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters.

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