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Brussels, Belgium—The EU is set to better protect journalists from political pressure and surveillance under an unprecedented media freedom law approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday.
“This law’s adoption marks a major step forward for the right to information within the European Union,” said RSF’s Brussels office chief Julie Majerczak.The draft text of the European Media Freedom Act was introduced by the European Commission in 2022 in reaction to deteriorating media pluralism and independence in EU countries such as Hungary and Poland, and also as spyware like Pegasus and Predator was being used to target journalists.
The lead lawmaker shepherding the law through parliament, Sabine Verheyen, highlighted not only “threats to media freedom in Hungary” but also the October 16, 2017 murder of a Maltese investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia. The European Parliament today has a room named in Caruana Galizia’s honour and gives an annual journalism award in her name.During negotiations on the new law, France insisted on “national security” carve-outs, sparking concerns among journalists and media-freedom organizations.
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