Media Freedom Act: speed despite critici • Table.Briefings

A legal opinion is still to show whether the European Media Freedom Act can actually be realized as originally planned. But during the debate on the EMFA in the leading European Parliament’s Culture and Media Committee, it became clear that the Parliament wants to hurry, otherwise, there is a threat of new problems.

What the EU Commission proposed last year with its European Media Freedom Act has already drawn some criticism. And there was also censure at the Culture and Education Committee, CULT. „We make very strong regulations for the internal market, but we don’t say a word about transnational structures. Regarding media concentration, for example, the focus is always on the national market,“ criticized rapporteur Sabine Verheyen (CDU) on Tuesday. This would also include online platforms as media aggregators.

Media Freedom Act: speed despite criticism

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