Metro International's Nomination Committee proposes new Board Of Directors

Luxembourg - Ahead  of the Annual  General Meeting on  May 27,  2008,
Metro International S.A  ("Metro"),  (Stockholm Stock Exchange:  MTRO
SDB A and MTRO SDB B), today announced that the Nomination  Committee
proposes to re-elect Mr. Joshua Berger, Ms. Mia Brunell Livfors,  Mr.
Patrick Byng, Mr. Henry Guy, and, Ms. Cristina Stenbeck as  directors
of Metro and  that Mr. Nigel  Cooper and Mr.  Mario Queiroz be  newly
elected directors  of Metro.  It  is further  proposed that  Ms.  Mia
Brunell Livfors be elected as the Chairman of the Board of  Directors
of Metro.
 
Mr. Cooper was  a senior audit  partner at KPMG  LLP until 2005.  Mr.
Cooper brings  broad international  and financial  experience of  the
advertising and publishing sectors and  new media. He spent 33  years
in the  profession, including  21 years  as a  partner in  Milan  and
London. Between 1998 and 2005 Mr. Cooper was lead audit and  advisory
partner in KPMG's Information, Communications and Entertainment Group
based in London. He specialized in advising leading global  companies
across the media  sector. The intention  is for Mr.  Cooper to  Chair
Metro's Audit Committee.  Mr. Cooper is  a Non-Executive Director  of
Rightmove Group PLC, the UK's  leading property website which  listed
on the London Stock Exchange in 2006.
 
Mr. Queiroz has significant experience  of the new media sector  with
considerable  expertise  in  the  development  and  delivery  of  new
strategies on  a  global  scale.  He is  Vice  President  of  Product
Management for  Europe, Africa,  Middle East,  and Latin  America  at
Google. In this role Mr. Queiroz is responsible for product  strategy
and implementation in these geographies as well as for the design  of
search,  ads,  and  application   products  across  14  of   Google's
international Research and  Development centers.  Mr. Queiroz  joined
Google in  2005 and  initially led  the company's  global IT  product
strategy and  development.  Prior to  Google,  Mr. Queiroz  was  with
Hewlett-Packard for 16  years. In his  final position at  HP, he  was
Vice President  of Operations  for  key elements  of HP's  global  IT
infrastructure.  This   followed  marketing,   operations,  and   R&D
management positions in HP's PC and printing businesses in the United
States and Europe.
 
The Chairman  of the  Nomination  Committee of  Metro  International,
Cristina Stenbeck, commented:"I am very pleased to propose  Nigel Cooper and Mario Queiroz to  the
Board of Directors of Metro. Nigel Cooper has a strong background  in
advising  leading  global  media  companies  and  a  solid  financial
expertise which will add  a further dimension of  focus to the  Metro
Board and Audit  Committee work.  Mario Queiroz's  experience in  the
media sector in both developed and emerging markets will benefit  the
Board in the process of  restructuring Metro into a profitable  media
company with a unique global reach."
 
 
For further information, please visit www.metro.lu, or contact:
Per Mikael Jensen, CEO & President tel: +44 (0) 20 7016 1300
Steve Nylund, Company Secretary tel: +44 (0) 20 7016 1300
 
ABOUT METRO INTERNATIONAL AND METRO
Metro is the largest international  newspaper in the world. Metro  is
published in over  150 major  cities in 21  countries across  Europe,
North & South  America and Asia.  Metro has a  unique global reach  -
attracting a young,  active, well-educated  Metropolitan audience  of
over 20 million daily readers.  Metro's advertising sales have  grown
at a  compound annual  rate of  38%  since the  launch of  the  first
edition in 1995.
 
Metro International 'A' and 'B' shares  are listed on the OMX  Nordic
Exchange's Nordic List under the symbols MTRO SDB A and MTRO SDB B.