Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-13-Speech-2-306"
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"Mr President, Mrs Reding, historically, every time this directive has been discussed in the European Parliament, since 1984, there has been a struggle between Parliament and the Commission. Parliament has asked that the issue of pluralism be dealt with within the scope of this directive and on numerous occasions the Commission has said: this is a very delicate matter and we dare not — to put it in a simplified fashion — deal with it.
In relation to this directive, in the preparations for the discussion we are going to hold from now on in Liverpool, an issues paper was entirely dedicated to the issue of pluralism, an issue that causes great concern. The Commission’s view has always been, ‘look, when industry is liberalised, pluralism will follow automatically’. But that is not true. It is not true because in the world of radio and the world of television we are subject to a system of administrative franchises and there is interference by public powers.
Mrs Reding, I am going to tell you about something that is happening in our country and which has no precedent in the European Union: 500 000 Spanish citizens, more than half a million Spanish citizens — something which has never before happened in the European Union, in any of its institutions — are supporting an initiative to prevent a public power, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, from closing a radio station. Surely that is important and is of interest to the public.
In view of this precedent, I would ask you: Mrs Reding, is the issue of pluralism going to be dealt with in this directive?"@en1
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