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I am voting in favour of Marianne Mikko’s report on concentration and pluralism in the media in the EU.
Access to free and diverse media in all Member States is vitally important these days. The two-pillar model that was introduced for private and public television and audiovisual media services has developed very well. So that this development process can continue as fruitfully as possible, stable funding must be provided for public broadcasting corporations, enabling them to promote public interests and social values, to preserve pluralism in the media and to give people access to high-quality content.
I also support the creation of a charter for media freedom. This would be a bridgehead for efforts to guarantee freedom of expression. Provision for the independence of journalists, however, must be made by means of specific legal and social guarantees.
The concentration of media ownership is also a problem, since it encourages the emergence of monopolies. There is therefore a need to merge competition and media legislation in order to guarantee access, competition and quality. The report more or less covers all the main points, and for this reason I am backing the rapporteur."@en1
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