'Hello Eupen, are you there?'. The interactions between media and politics in German speaking Belgium on the subject of cultural autonomy (1965-1974)

The present article would like to reflect on the multiple interactions between media and politics. In the context of the historiographical renewal advocating an integrated approach in the history of the media, it focuses on the relations between politics and mass media (the press, radio and television). It questions furthermore the importance of these media in the relations between the cultural communities and the Belgian state. The case study here are the German-language media in Belgium. The context is the debate on the cultural autonomy of the German-speaking region. This approach is also an opportunity to look at the history of a community that has not been widely studied by Belgian historiography. Certain parallelisms can be seen in the evolutions in the German-language region, in Flanders, in Brussels and in Wallonia.