FRANCE, “BAD EXAMPLE” IN EUROPE FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

Hungary, first, a brand brand new press law is entrance in to force upon 1 ^st January. It concerned a carry out of a Conservative supervision as great as jingoist Viktor Orban to hypnotize a powers-cons. This law places all a media, in isolation as great as public, air wave or blogs, underneath a safekeeping of a “ Media Council” , with powers of permit opposite a antennas which would not be ‘em > “politically balanced” .

row of a Commission denounces “the unusual thoroughness of skills as great as responsibilities” in a Hungarian Council. The Orban supervision “would be great suggested to recur a laws as great as regulations adopted” , supports a former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who heads a group.

ampoule B22, which has stagnated during 38 ^th place of a annual inform upon leisure of a press Reporters Without Borders (published Tuesday, for a sum of 179 countries), is additionally a aim of these experts. While RSF denounces a pressures reporters have been theme to a insurance of sources as great as in questioning a circles tighten to a government, a European organisation calls in to subject a appointment of a boss of ampoule B22 Television by a French president. ” / p>

law was dictated by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 “I do not see because a principal shareholder of ampoule B22 Televisions, namely a State, a President would not appoint” he pronounced during a time, referring to open companies such as EDF, SNCF as great as RATP. For a European experts, there is “clearly a thoroughness of energy in a single hand,” which is “not a great e.g. for Europe”, according to Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

In Italy, a European experts malign unsurprisingly “an impassioned thoroughness of channels as great as air wave stations in a single hand” , which of former budding apportion Silvio Berlusconi. ” The Italian Constitutional Court deliberate which it was an unattractive situation, though politically it has been abandoned “, they noted. The organisation contingency inform a commentary by a finish of a year to a European Commissioner in assign of brand brand new technologies, Neelie Kroes.

Tuesday, M ^me Kroes met with a CEO of Klubradio, a categorical Hungarian antithesis air wave magnitude which has mislaid 8 in 2011. The proceed of a consultant organisation set up by M ^me Kroes is eccentric of a transgression procedures launched not long ago by a European Commission opposite Hungary in a arise of his argumentative inherent laws.

            The Monde.fr with AFP