In this exclusive interview the Argentinean Minister for Communications, Juan Gabriel Mariotto, explains the country’s new broadcasting legislation.

Twenty-one years after the fall of Ceasescu, some circles of the Romanian ruling class persist in viewing the press as a means of transmitting official information. Moreover, Romania is dangerously victim of a “berlusconization” trend.

Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, appealed to the Hungarian Government today to halt draft media legislation that is to be voted on in Parliament next week.

European Alternatives presents its new transnational campaign on media freedom with a 3-date Italian tour in Rome, Bologna and Sassari

On Saturday 19th of June at 18.00 a European Alternatives meeting will take place in Berlin. The new campaign Media Pluralism and Freedom of the Press will be presented by co-Director Lorenzo Marsili, followed by Lorenzo Fioramonti’s introduction on his paper Europe, Environment, and Social Justice.

A workshop with MEPs and experts from civil society and the media to reason together on the possibility of a European normative framework to guarantee pluralism of the media in Europe.

Argentina has bravely undertaken the path for trying to safeguard the foundation of democracy in the information society; let us hope that this spurs aloof European democracies into action.

During the first National Conference on Communications, Brazil showed its willingness to bring the question of the media into discussions on the roadmap to participatory democracy.

The Italian public television network Rai has been strongly politicized since its creation in 1954. The Masonic Lodge “Propaganda 2” was a secret Lodge which became very influent in Italy during the 70s. One of the main goals of the Masonic Lodge P2, was the control of the media. In fact, its leader, Licio Gelli, understood that “the real power is in the hands of the mass media”. European Alternatives has already produced a dossier on the current state of the media in Italy. Today we will try to understand how everything started.

A dossier concluding that lack of pluralism and evidence of media intimidation in Italy breach the fundamental values of the European Union.