The Daily Mail has used its position as one of the world's most read newspapers to dominate the political agenda in the UK around Europe and migration issues. Recently, scaremongering about the numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians who would come to the UK after the lifting of the temporary restrictions on their freedom of movement […]
CONTINUE READINGWe are happy to begin 2014 with a new phase for our campaign, a new website that makes it easier to sign and new partners all across Europe. At a first glance, 2013 might have looked like a quiet year, in which media moguls did not make the headlines as often as in previous years. […]
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CONTINUE READINGThe citizens’ initiative is the first participatory democracy tool at the European level. It enables one million citizens to directly submit a draft legislative proposal to the European Commission. Based on the 14 existing initiatives, the assessment made by their organisers today is rather bitter. The initiative’s democratic promises went against the multiple challenges of […]
CONTINUE READINGThe European Initiative for Media Pluralism promotes the idea that European institutions should safeguard the right to independent and pluralistic information as sanctioned by the European Charter on Human Rights. The situation of media freedom and pluralism in the European Union is worsening. Some countries, notably Hungary, suffer significant interference of political power aiming to control […]
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