Miss Europe

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Miss Europe is a beauty pageant for European ladies from all over Europe. It became established in February 1927 through Fanamet, the European distributor of Paramount, as a one-off occasion in which the winner become to megastar in a movie directed with the aid of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. After the initial 12-person jury could not decide between 10 contestants, a runoff election changed into held where Murnau selected the winner. Murnau ended up selecting Štefica Vidačić of Yugoslavia as the winner and the primary ever Miss Europe. Miss Europe changed into later re-mounted in December 1928 by way of French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874–1946), who also created, in 1920, what by way of 1927 had become the Miss France festival. Miss Europe, beneath de Waleffe, became first held at the Paris Opera with participants from 18 nations. The first contest underneath de Waleffe did now not arise till February 1929.

The contest become interrupted by means of the onset of World War II however changed into later re-hooked up, after de Waleffe died, via Roger Zeiler and Claude Berr who based the Mondial Events Organization (MEO). Most contestants received their respective national contests for Miss World & Miss Universe, and participated as supplemental education for their respective competitions. Berr died in 1981 and in 2003, Roger Zeiler bought the license for the competition to Endemol France, a part of the Dutch television manufacturing enterprise Endemol. In 2007 to 2009, the opposition changed into introduced to be held in numerous vicinity including Moscow and Beirut but it did now not occurred as they had to stop the contest after 2006 due to internal problems with the groups.

In 2016, the festival changed into "revived" by the newly shaped Miss Europe Organization originally centered in London but then later moved to Edinburgh, Scotland. Apparently there may be a reference to the previous organizers because the winner of the 2016 edition wore the identical crown (tiara/diadem) as her predecessors.

The reigning Miss Europe is Anastasia Prodanov from Serbia, who changed into crowned throughout the Cannes Festival in Cannes, France on July 13, 2021.