Respondents in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia want measures to protect press freedom
More than half of people in four former communist central European counties fear media freedom is in danger, with significant majorities wanting government or EU measures to protect it, according to a survey.
In what organisers hope will provide a spur to action, 52% voiced concern about media freedom – with the highest figure, 63%, recorded in, whose rightwing nationalist Law and Justice party government stands accused of aggressively targeting independent media with expensive lawsuits while meddling in public broadcasting.
Misha Glenny, a British broadcaster and chair of the Committee for Editorial Independence – which commissioned the study along with the Czech committee of the International Press Institute – warned the EU against overlooking Poland’s transgressions as a reward for its role in enacting western policy in Russia’s war against Ukraine, particularly when compared with“What you’ve seen since Ukraine is that the European Commission and some European Union governments have decided that they are...
Support for media freedom among Fidesz backers is significantly lower than among other groups, said Václav Štětka, a media specialist at Loughborough university.
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