MEPs are set to give their final green light on Wednesday to new legislation to protect EU journalists and media from political or economic interference. Plenary will discuss the draft European Media Freedom Act, agreed provisionally with the EU ministers in December 2023, on Tuesday afternoon. The new law will oblige member states to protect media independence from governmental, political, economic or private interference. It will ban all forms of interventions in editorial decisions and prevent the external pressuring of journalists to force them to disclose their sources or by targeting them with spyware. To increase media ownership transparency, all outlets regardless of their size will have to publish information about their owners and report on their receipt of state funding. MEPs debate.

Strasbourg

debate

plenary session

LÓPEZ AGUILAR, Juan Fernando (S&D, ES)

TARABELLA, Marc (NI, BE)

freedom of press and media (T)

CASA, David (EPP, MT)

KAMMEREVERT, Petra (S&D, DE)

BOCSKOR, Andrea (NI, HU)

KOULOGLOU, Stelios (The Left, EL)

TOMC, Romana (EPP, SI)

BILČÍK, Vladimír (EPP, SK)

HOJSÍK, Martin (Renew, SK)

SLABAKOV, Andrey (ECR, BG)

AGIUS SALIBA, Alex (S&D, MT)

FRANKOWSKI, Tomasz (EPP, PL)

HALICKI, Andrzej (EPP, PL)

KRUK, Elżbieta (ECR, PL)

MAZUREK, Beata (ECR, PL)

ADAMOWICZ, Magdalena (EPP, PL)

DALY, Clare (The Left, IE)

WALLACE, Mick (The Left, IE)

YONCHEVA, Elena (S&D, BG)

DAVID, Ivan (ID, CZ)

FARRENG, Laurence (Renew, FR)

GRISET, Catherine (ID, FR)

ROUGÉ, André (ID, FR)

RIBA I GINER, Diana (Greens/EFA, ES)

KOLAKUŠIĆ, Mislav (NI, HR)

FREUND, Daniel (Greens/EFA, DE)

DONÁTH, Anna Júlia (Renew, HU)

JOVEVA, Irena (Renew, SI)

GLAVAK, Sunčana (EPP, HR)

TARCZYŃSKI, Dominik (ECR, PL)

NEMEC, Matjaž (S&D, SI)

EP Plenary session - European Media Freedom Act: MEPs debate

https://api.multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/documents/20125/75322111/1710150015161_I254272Chapters%5BSD-EN%5D.srt

SOUNDBITE (Original), Tomasz FRANKOWSKI (EPP, PL), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Petra KAMMEREVERT (S&amp;D, DE), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Irena JOVEVA (Renew, SI), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Diana RIBA I GINER (Greens/EFA, ES), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Andrey SLABAKOV (ECR, BG), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Catherine GRISET (ID, FR), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Stelios KOULOGLOU (The Left, EL), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Andrea BOCSKOR (NI, HU), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), David CASA (EPP, MT), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Alex AGIUS SALIBA (S&amp;D, MT), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Laurence FARRENG (Renew, FR), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Daniel FREUND (Greens/EFA, DE), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Elżbieta KRUK (ECR, PL), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Ivan DAVID (ID, CZ), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Marc TARABELLA (NI, BE), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Andrzej HALICKI (EPP, PL), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Elena YONCHEVA (S&amp;D, BG), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Anna Júlia DONÁTH (Renew, HU), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Dominik TARCZYŃSKI (ECR, PL), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), André ROUGÉ (ID, FR), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Mislav KOLAKUŠIĆ (NI, HR), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Romana TOMC (EPP, SI), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Vladimír BILČÍK (EPP, SK), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Sunčana GLAVAK (EPP, HR), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&amp;D, ES), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Martin HOJSÍK (Renew, SK), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Beata MAZUREK (ECR, PL), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Clare DALY (The Left, IE), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Magdalena ADAMOWICZ (EPP, PL), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Matjaž NEMEC (S&amp;D, SI), -

SOUNDBITE (Original), Mick WALLACE (The Left, IE), -