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"I am going to make my speech in Romanian as I hope that this will allow me to get my message across as clearly as possible to Bucharest as well, both to the country’s president and the right-wing government.
I am so shocked that, after the speech made this morning by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, on the state of the Union and our European projects, we are now debating the state of the media in the EU, and in a number of states in particular: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Italy. In Italy, granted, there is an incompatible situation between the President of the Council and his position as owner of a media empire which holds a monopoly in this country.
Commissioner, since you are the guardian of the treaties, I am going to quote to you the following passage from a document. It says: ‘Deliberate press campaigns aimed at denigrating state institutions by spreading false information about their activities pose a vulnerability to the Romanian state.’
This passage is not part of any Hitlerite or Stalinist policy. It features in a text which will become law if it is adopted by the Romanian Parliament, and has been drafted with the title ‘Romanian National Security Strategy’ on the orders of President Traian Băsescu. I am referring explicitly to Article 6, paragraph 2, point 10, ‘Vulnerabilities’.
This document, which refers to the challenges facing national security, considers, in fact, that freedom of the press and freedom of opinion, which are otherwise fundamental rights in every EU Member State, actually pose a threat to national security. The wording of this article leaves scope for arbitration and abuse, and damages the reputation of this activity.
Finally, I wish to inform you, Commissioner, that two petitions have already been submitted to the European Parliament, and the largest trade union of Romanian journalists, MediaSind, has submitted a petition. You are aware, as I am, that the decision made by the European Court of Justice in 1978, in the Handyside case, is part of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is actually part of the corpus of EU treaties."@en1
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