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"I believe there is not a single Member of the European Parliament who would question the need for freedom of expression and a free press. At the end of the day, this is a fundamental right, codified in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 11). I would also like to say that, since last year, there has been an unofficial European Charter of Press Freedom, welcomed by the Commission, in which journalists demand that governments of European countries abide by principles protecting them and their work, ranging from the prohibition on censorship to ensuring the personal protection of journalists. In my opinion, however, that is only one side of the overall problem. The other side is the ever-growing brute power of the media, the wholesale flouting of basic ethical standards by journalists, their lack of responsibility for the freely spoken word and their pseudo-independence which is determined by the financial and political interests of the media barons. Virtually the entire press in the Czech Republic, from regional to central, is owned by foreign concerns which meddle in the politics of the country in an unscrupulous manner through their media. Does this interest any of the competent persons in the EU? I doubt it. We will just carry on coining fancy slogans and phrases while reality takes its own course."@en1
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