Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-10-08-Speech-4-023"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-10-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Freedom of information in Italy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091008.5.4-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-10-08-Speech-4-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Francesco Enrico Speroni2
lpv:spokenAs	member; JURI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 co-chair; EFD (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Lega Nord (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Presidents (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-17--2009-11-15)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Afghanistan (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-16--2011-10-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Union is an area of freedom and of democracy: Italy is no exception, even where information is concerned. Were it not enough to consider the countless publications on sale in news-stands, or to see the wide range of television channels available, including local channels, one need only analyse the reports by independent bodies such as the Pavia Monitoring Unit, which established that the opposition has 60% of the airtime during public television news broadcasts and 49% of the airtime on the Mediaset networks. One should then consider that, of 455 judgments handed down by the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on freedom of information, only seven concern Italy, compared with 29 for France and 28 for the United Kingdom. As for claiming that media outlets would be influenced by the fact that the Italian Prime Minister, exercising his constitutional right as a citizen, has brought legal proceedings against some of them, it is very important to recognise in this context that, in Italy, from the first instance rulings up to the final and definitive rulings, the judiciary certainly does not give in to the Head of Government; rather, at times the opposite seems true. Freedom of expression is guaranteed in Italy: whoever claims otherwise should have the courage not to submit general motions for resolutions from a purely political perspective, but to initiate the procedure referred to in Article 7 of the Treaty, which requires documentary evidence of the state of completely non-existent affairs."@en1
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