"Presents the findings of a survey conducted by the European Institute for the Media to provide the factual basis for the experts' meeting on European assistance to the media of developing countries held in Brussels in 1985. Country surveys are presented for the countries of Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the UK. In France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UKT there are rather substantial programs of media assistance. The countries' programs of media assistance display distinct national styles and, at least as far as France and the UK are concerned, a geographical distribution reflecting historical and linguistic associations." (commbox)