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2020.09.25. 20:42
Anna Donáth filed a complaint with the European Commission in the case of Club Radio and Media Council.
Anna Donáth, Momentum MEP, presented another complaint in defense of Hungarian press freedom to the Hungarian Journalists Association.
On the community side, the MEP wrote:
With the silence of Club Radio, our greatest fears were demonstrated. In 2019, we turned to the European Commission to investigate whether Fidesz had unfairly filled the Media Council with its own people. It has long been revealed that council members were assigned a single task by Viktor Orbán: to liquidate the last bastions of press freedom in Hungary. However, if someone wants to protest and appeal against this, there is no one to turn to outside of the European Commission.
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According to the head of Club Radio, it would be in the authorities’ interest for the radio to continue broadcasting. András Arató also affirms that they have never supported leftist governments.
The MEP stressed that the Hungarian government would have had until September 19 to transpose the Directive on audiovisual media services into national legislation. This EU directive states that national media authorities, including the Media Council, must be independent from the government and must exercise their powers impartially and transparently. According to Anna Donáth, the Media Council does not correspond to any of them. She added that Fidesz supports the crony’s propaganda by all means, while blocking the latest non-governmental radio administratively.
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