[1]Website: MediaInitiative.eu [1]. For updates follow @MediaECI [2] on Twitter and ‘like’ the Facebook page European Initiative for Media Pluralism [3].
“European institutions should safeguard the right to free, independent and pluralistic information”. The quote, from the Media Initiative [1] website, summarizes the main idea behind a pan-European campaign that aims at urging the European Commission to draft a Directive to protect Media Pluralism and Press Freedom.
The Media Initiative [1] is running a European Citizens’ Initiative [4] – a tool of participatory democracy “which allows civil society coalitions to collect online and offline one million signatures in at least 7 EU member states to present directly to the European Commission a proposal forming the base of an EU Directive, initiating a legislative process”. The petition is available in 15 languages and can be signed online [5]:
Protecting media pluralism through partial harmonization of national rules on media ownership and transparency, conflicts of interest with political office and independence of media supervisory bodies.
A short video presents the campaign: