EMFA: Media freedom under Council attack

Work on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) is progressing – in the Council and Parliament. But whether the result will actually be more media freedom remains to be seen. There is a sharp criticism of the Council’s plans.

The EMFA should actually guarantee freedom of the media throughout the EU. In particular, the violent deaths of Ján Kuciak in Slovakia and Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta highlighted the urgency of better protection. Events in Hungary, Poland and Greece, where governments used controversial measures to harass individual journalists, such as spyware deployments, increased the pressure to act.

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