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International conference on media freedom in Bulgaria, is being held this afternoon in Sofia. The topics of the forum, co-organized with Euroactiv, are in two panels, entitled "How the European Union can help" and "Does Europe hear us".
During the conference the topic of media freedom was commented by the Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Yourova.
Via online connection in the discussion took part member of the European parliament Ramona Strugariou, representative from Reporters Without Borders, Patrick Peninks, Head of the Information Society Department at the Council of Europe, Bulgarian journalists and editors.
The report on Bulgaria of the European Commission, presented recently, which was about the rule of law and the media, noted that there is no transparency in media ownership in the country. It was underlined that local authorities use state advertising to control small newspapers and tv channels, and pressure on independent media and media focused on investigations comes through threats, harassment lawsuits, and political and administrative pressure.
Media freedom across Europe needs to be supported, but the situation in the Balkans is particularly deplorable – independent media are at risk and will not survive on their own.
The decline in media freedom in the Balkans is eroding the European values of democracy and rule of law and creating a climate ripe for disinformation that is cultivating anti-EU and anti-Western sentiment across the region, writes Peter Horrocks.
Amnesty International published its 2020/2021 Report on the State of the World's Human Rights on Wednesday and the part about Bulgaria reads that media freedom and freedom of association have further deteriorated, as authorities targeted journalists and c
Persistent corruption, restricted media freedom, the politicization of the judiciary, as well as other threats to the rule of law pose serious challenges to bilateral relations between the United States and Bulgaria.
The media freedom (and media quality) situation in modern-day Bulgaria has become beyond horrendous over the past decade or so.
It happens in life that you do something you really love, and that you are, supposedly, good at, then for some reason you cast it aside, but then years later you come back to it, take it up again in one form or another, and feel great about it.
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