The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) enters into application across the European Union. The EMFA brings many benefits for media companies, journalists, and citizens, offering media service providers greater legal certainty and enhancing their independence. The EMFA is designed to strengthen media freedom, independence and pluralism within the EU’s internal market. It provides, among others, …
The Commission has published three calls for proposals under the Creative Europe programme, aiming to support media freedom and pluralism, increase media resilience and help enhance media literacy. The first call for proposals will fund pluralism and collaboration actions to promote journalism partnerships with a total amount of €10.5 million. The pluralism action is aimed at organisations that can set up …
Independent, fact-based journalism helps protect our democracies by exposing injustices, holding leaders to account and allowing citizens to make informed decisions. Journalists, who sometimes work at great personal risk, should be able to work freely and safely. This lies at the heart of EU values and democracies. This week, two pieces of EU legislation enter into force which …