14 December 2017 / ByJan Strupczewski and Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters Poland’s new prime minister said on Thursday he expected the European Commission to launch an unprecedented punishment procedure against Warsaw next week after months of wrangling over the rule of law. Several thousand people gathered in Poland’s largest towns on Thursday evening to protest against…
June 26, 2017 / by Maud Sacquet, project-disco.org On 15 June 2017, the European Commission’s Digital Vice President Andrus Ansip “lamented Parliament divisions on issues ranging from hyperlinking to text and data mining, after Members of the European Parliament tabled close to a thousand amendments to the copyright file”. As evidenced by recent coalition letters (here, here and here) from consumer representatives,…
23 April, 2016 / By Pier Luigi Parcu in Euroactiv.com Freedom of expression and media pluralism are principles enshrined in the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. Member states are bound to guarantee them, as they represent the essence of liberal democracies. But Pier Luigi Parcu asks whether this is true in practice. Pier Luigi Parcu…
1 May 2015 / By http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ Every day journalists risk their lives to help inform us. Last year alone 66 journalists were killed, 119 kidnapped, 178 arrested and more 1800 of them attacked of threatened. Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, we created an infographic based on the World Press Freedom Index put…
15 mayo 2015 / By European Federation of Journalist The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), together with organisations representing media workers and employers in the creative and cultural industry have called on European policy makers to ensure job growth, media diversity and quality content in the response to the European Commission’s consultation on spectrum policy.…
28 January 2015 / By European Federation of Journalists Senior representatives from broadcasting, network infrastructure, trade unions and professional organisations call on EU decision-makers to shape an ambitious industrial strategy for Europe’s creative and cultural industries. Europe’s unique radio and audiovisual model is a huge asset for Europe’s competitive position in the digital world, cultural…
24 January 2015 / By Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom During 2014, the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) carried out a pilot-test implementation of an updated and streamlined version of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) developed in 2009 by a consortium led by the University of Leuven. The implementation was conducted in nine EU Member…
3 November 2014 / By Adelina Marini, Zagreb EU can and should have a bigger role in supporting media freedom and pluralism in the EU and beyond. This is how begins the report of the high level group on media pluralism and freedom, established by the former European commissioner for the digital agenda and media, Neelie…
4th November 2014 / by Emma Goodman, LSE Media Policy Project Today, the Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten holds its last public meeting in Brussels. The Council, which was set up by Google following the European Court of Justice’s ruling that a Spanish citizen had the right to ask the…
October 16, 2014 / Walk Street Journal By VERONIKA GULYAS Thursday confirmed it filed an official complaint to the European Commission about Hungary’s advertising tax, saying it hurt media pluralism and was discriminatory. Hungary introduced a new advertising tax this summer levied on revenues with progressive tax rates ranging from 0% to 40%, payable by media…
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