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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, expressing one’s own ideas and opinions without injuring the rights and dignity of others is one of the fundamental freedoms of democracies.
Unfortunately, however, the supposedly free media does not always treat political parties and politicians in the same way. We know something about this ourselves, ladies and gentlemen, because very little of what we do in Parliament is reported by the media.
Despite the accusations of an illiberal and closed left wing, press freedom is guaranteed in Italy by an incredible plethora of local and national media. Those who say that the prime minister controls the media owned by his family as he wishes are lying and they know they are lying. I am amazed that MEPs who are legal experts can accuse the Italian Government of infringing the Treaty of Rome, and perhaps even the Treaty of Lisbon, but then do not use the main instrument against such infringements, which is recourse to the judicial bodies of the European Union.
I believe that the European Union should set up an independent ethics committee to establish the level of press freedom in all 27 Member States, thus shutting up those who peddle non-existent truths once and for all."@en1
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