Promoting quality news to support media and democracy 2020 will be remembered as one of the most challenging since the creation of the EU. The pandemic amplified and accelerated the transformation of our societies. With vaccines in sight in 2021, the pandemic crisis begins moving to recovery. At the same time the new year brings..

Read the parliamentary question on a potential NEWS sub-programme (Creative Europe), the Media Action Plan and short term measures for the media (submitted by MEP Andrus Ansip): “Independent and free media is instrumental for the functioning of democracy. The news media sector is in crisis. The revenues of global service providers who are able to..

Hope shines with DSA and DMA? Speed and integration required The EU Commission has finally released its proposal to overhaul rules for the online world. In the last twenty years the e-Commerce framework with its liability exemptions laid the basis for some of the most powerful companies in today’s economy. Lack of compelling regulation also..

Media Action Plan and Democracy Action Plan: NEWS and coalition building The EU’s Media Action Plan and Democracy Action Plan were unveiled today: there is a strong momentum to support a resilient democracy infrastructure, and a healthier media sector with more capacities to innovate. Rebalancing the media ecosystem is needed. This notably takes a clear..

Time for NEWS bundle to help media transformation Support for News media is more important than ever. The EU has many small projects helping news media recover and transform. Media-specific EU-funded projects include existing ones (notably pilots suggested by the Parliament, and also a recent wave regarding digital journalism, fact-checking, media literacy), and also new..

Towards media recovery through innovation and regulating platforms There are encouraging signs toward rebalancing the media ecosystem, and also renewing it, if actors move from legislation to actions, including resources to innovate. The US opens greater competition enquiries, which shows that tackling platforms is not anti-American. Also, regarding fair taxation of platforms, it is now..