Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-07-Speech-2-566"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-09-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Freedom of expression and press freedom in the European Union (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100907.33.2-566"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-07-Speech-2-5672
lpv:speaker	lp:Andrés Perelló Rodríguez2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iraq (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2010-11-15)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; IMCO (2010-09-06--2010-11-17)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, it is true that this is a global debate and that it would be exaggerating to say that there is not freedom of expression in the European Union, but it is just as true that there are cases of the right to information and the right to freedom of expression being curtailed, which we must condemn. I support and agree with those who say that we need to focus on Member States that infringe freedom of expression and freedom of the press. If we have to talk about Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, we must do so, but if we have to talk about the scandalous case of Romania, we must also do so. We might say that there is no judicial evidence, but there is sufficient information that we must act in response to these scandalous cases because this is not a court but a political parliament. I also want to point out that there are democratic countries that have public television channels which have succeeded in gaining the highest number of viewers due their pluralism – as is the case in Spain – but which coexist with public television channels of autonomous communities – such as Madrid and Valencia, which have a larger combined territory and population than some Member States – that have been taken over by the respective regional governments and are being significantly manipulated. This manipulation has been reported by associations, parties and unions and involves blackouts and disconnections by the works committees in response to their fears of mobbing. They have shown themselves to be capable – for example Canal Nou – of censoring the greatest corruption scandal in Spain – the Gürtel case – because it affects the government that runs the channel, while the public television channels were running the story as the top headline on that day, and they scandalously violate the rights of journalists and viewers. This is happening in the European Union – in the Community of Valencia and the Community of Madrid – and it is happening at Telemadrid and Canal Nou (Canal 9, in Spanish). There are therefore two television channels – and I promise to provide evidence of this – that are acting outside the Treaty of Lisbon and circumventing the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights because they are constantly infringing Article 11, and I ask you to take this into consideration. I am speaking out to condemn this and I ask the Commissioner and the Commission to ask for information, because a democratic Member State and a democratic Union cannot sustain this type of bad conduct."@en1
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