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european commission says it is introducing new legislation to protect free and independent journalism. the european media freedom act. let's talk about that with the era you over the european commission, vice president charge with you values and transparency. thank you for being with us . thank you very much for your interest. madame vice president and media freedom in the european union is a fundamental right. so how can it be that this right is under threat right now? how did we get there? we saw this trend over 3 years. we have a good day tire by air comparing the there is really a negative trend, political economic distress, spying journalists, worsening situation for the journalist when it comes to that, a safety,

abusing justice system, i own generalist. so you ask about how it is possible? well, a we very lying a lot on member states, rules and legislation, and at some omen we realized wait a minute. this is funny reference problem. and if we let the threat continue, if the media will be weakened to be on some line, we will not be able to see democracy protected sufficiently. so that's why we are coming with the legally binding rules. and i believe that we had a difficult legislative process maybe, but i'm ready very to push it through because i believe we need it. so you saying that the member states are to blame for the situation? no, i would not formulate that i, i just realized that we have a very even stunned down level of protection of

media in our member states. that our country's out a lot of safeguards and i can name germany. that's why i had to give a lot of promises to different german figures and, and politicians, and also the media organizations that we are not going to destroy the systems which work well. but i also try to convince everybody that there are gaps that out there is this trend why we see that resolve the legally binding rules? the media will be the victims of the funding situation. just look at the platforms and the power see the money which went to the big platforms which weakened the media. economically. look at some states which try to use the political power to influence the editorial content. look at the using the

spyware. again, as a journalist, you named at the beginning from, i'm sorry, face in the commission, says that the media freedom act with hands, media, independence and transparency. how is it going to do it? exactly. we are focusing on several big thinks of on the basis of the problem identified. so 1st of all, we are warning the member states of the political layer. do not interfere. let the journalists do the job, don't use the spyware. don't push them to disclose the sources of information are at the same time where we are alerting. when it comes to public service media. we belief that the right of people to have objective information and neutral kinds of news that we need to see in all the member states. high profile of

professional public service media, not state media or party media. we see a lot of are public money being ah, sent to the media through advertising. and we want to see how much and to which media. in other words, we want to see more transparency in how the public money is used. whether you just buy the space or whether you or so buy some editorial gratitute and are we don't see a lot of far information regarding a transparency of ownership of media. in a recent interview, you said that hungry, often criticized for it's handling offer media. was an inspiration for at the bill . what exactly did you mean by that? well, i'll, of course we had to, ah, we had in mind several concrete cases. when i was asked very intensively,

what will the commission do in this house? i was grilled so many times and i had to a repeat while we do not have any tool in hand. and he cannot act of and we see something wrong happening in hungary or it it ball land, or we had an issue in slovenia. ah, we see some negative trend in many other member states. and are, you know, like you a reply and 9 times i cannot do anything. and the don't dance thyme you are not willing to refute it anymore. so the solution is that european law, i will honestly try to, ah, convince everybody that this is a good thing or we will however, may be difficult legislative process. but thar, everybody has to admit that the media are not protected enough in europe. but

talking about hungary, well this legislation have immediate effects on hungary, for instance, on media owned by oligarchs, close to the government. and of course it cannot be used at thr actively, sorry, i'm a lawyer, so i have to mention that. but this law sets the criteria for which are a will be used for assessment of concentration of media ownership. and i, i believe that although monopoly against smile which we see in hungary functioning ah, of would not be possible. would not have been possible with such a loss and critics in hungry are already saying that this proposed legislation is a concealed threat to freedom of speech though is sir the commission protecting their freedom of media by restricting freedom of speech by restricting opinions that the commission doesn't like, this is a fatal misunderstanding. i don't know if i made a mistake in communication,

but ah, by server. so we want by this law to increase the protection of the freedom of speech. that's why i also mentioned the platforms that that should be special treatment fault, that professional journalists to be able to place that opinions and then use in that digital space. and on i have to repeat that we are not a relating media themselves, regulating the space for the media. the european parliament this week said that hungry is a systemic threat to e u values as a commissioner in charge of those values. do you believe that governments, like the one in budapest should have a space in the european union? ah, you can imagine the commission shares a lot of times which are in the resolution, which was already in the previous one. we see issues in judiciary system. we

discussed the media drinking space or the civil society. there are thousands of little bigger things which goals some kind of erosion of, of the hungarian democracy. and so this is snow the choice for, for hungary to prove that they belong to the club of europe in the country. countries . while it's my job to have a dialogue on gary or to use the tools which i have as a commissioner to try to convince them through different measures to come back. and in the past, victor alba and hungarian prime minister already verbally attacked you and demanded you resignation. so are you not afraid of a backlash in hungry and in other countries? for instance, poland because of this legislation. ah, when you enter politics,

you cannot take things personally. i had several other enemies. i realize that there is something on the slogan, it's my slogan. tell me who your enemies are and i will tell you who you are. and i was not happy that mister mon was taking me, but i was happy that love on the lion protected me, that she, she saw supporting me. and i think that in general, it is not a good thing that in politics, we do not speak about opponents mores speak about adversaries or enemies. a thing that should come back to some kind of dissent, politics, why we lack this the arguments rather than this offensive. but how does it feel to have, in your opinion, a european leader as your enemy? ah, that it sounds cynical if i say i got used to it and i also have

a lot of friends and you grow up and coming is to regime in the then jealous lavaca before that i one will went down. so how has this experience impacted you personal view of journalists and media? it's an easy to compare the time before of illusion and after, because we cannot speak on it about any media in district. lucky or either of us, some newspaper there was tv, but my father always little telling me, veronica, do not believe any thing, but you read in newspaper. it was very important part of my education and equipment for the rest of my life. to day, my message would be please, people don't believe everything you read. and here comes my fight to get this

information and fake news. and now we have regimes like the one in russia and the commission is saying, you want to restrict foreign propaganda and it's inflammation. but isn't this motion coming to light? you know, we, we have in dna and you are all that we are really protect the freedom of speech and the media doing the job must be protected. but then we came to the point when we saw the russia today and put, nick became just the water weapon, not the media anymore. so if it came late, i think it came in the proper moment together with enhancing the support of the journalist in ukraine. and we are sending a lot of money to help you. oh so, so they are heroes working that in the battlefield. med and vice president. thank

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