Agence Europe is a European press agency founded by Lodovico Riccardi, former president of the press agency ANSA, who established in 1952 a new specialised press agency to specifically collect, publish and distribute news and in-depth analysis of the nascent European Economic Communities. Located first in Luxembourg (where the first European Community, the ECSC, had just been established) and later in Brussels, Agence Europe has provided extensive and documented accounts of European Union institutional activities and policies. High profile journalists such as Emanuele Gazzo, Ferdinando Riccardi, Marina Gazzo and others have made Agence Europe an authoritative source of information for the study of the European Union integration process set in motion by the Treaty of Paris (1951).
Emanuele Gazzo, (1908-1994) was the first director of Agence Europe. This Italian journalist from Genoa was an expert in economic and maritime affairs and an advocate of European federalism. Under his direction, Agence Europe gained prestige and authority in European affairs as the press agency could count on a precious network of relations with functionaries and politicians directly involved in the European project. Marina Gazzo took her father's position at Agence Europe until 2006 along with Ferdinando Riccardi and later his son Lorenzo Riccardi, who is the current director.