For the past months "The Contest" broadcast videos produced by young journalists from all over Europe. Their stories were the product of a month of training at the CIRCOM - a group of public, regional European TVs - 2008 summer academy. Now time has come

The Contest: Time for the verdict

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The countdown started. The award   will be given on EuroparlTV on 22 July.

We will then present you the best report   shown this year as part of 'The Contest'. 

Ten reports competing and were   made by young European journalists.

For 1 month, they were trained at   CIRCOM, an association of regional TVs.

As we wait for the verdict, here's a   reminder of the topics and candidates.

He and Hulla Küfner went all the way to   Finland to take a look at gender pay gap.

Sladjana Miletić and Vladan Božović   took a look at how the crisis

has made it harder foreign workers   to get work permits.

-the real and the counterfeit   and therefore, labels on the bottles-

were examined by a pair   from Ireland and Kosovo.

Nils Fredrik Røren took a look   at a German contradiction:

but Germans can't do without cars,   symbols of German capitalism,

The journalists visited families who live   in a very environment-friendly way.

The British government   saw the opportunity

and started building eco-towns   but the British are divided on the issue.

to see whether psoriasis   could be treated by fish.

Lukáš Pfauser and Hodei Arrausi   tell us that in Malta,

love sometimes rhymes with always   but not because of love

but because getting a divorce   is way too time-consuming.

Fran McNutty and Marija Stanić   spent time on a delicate topic

filmed in Switzerland: assisted suicide,

death sought by terminal patients   and which is legal there.

The team followed Anca,   a young woman who left Romania,

and became an escort girl in Western   Europe, physically and mentally abused

before an association helped her   to rebuild her life in Romania.

A report by Irina Ivić and Arta Avdiu about   the Eurovision song contest backstage.

Apparently, it's not always   very harmonious.