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"Mr President, the importance of fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of information, was reaffirmed at the recent Brussels European Council. In this respect, how can one doubt the contribution made by the President-in-Office of the Council? This is why I turn to you and to the Members here to underline the extremely serious attack on the multiplicity of information posed by the Gasparri law on broadcasting.
Virtually all public and private broadcasting services in Italy are controlled by the Prime Minister. The advertising market is also in practice dominated by the companies he owns. It is not an exaggeration to call it a media
which sets a highly dangerous precedent for the Community countries. If the problem of the enormous conflict of interests that strikes at the heart of democracy in my country is not addressed and resolved within the Community, the creeping regime that is suffocating Italian society will be consolidated. What will elections mean if the Prime Minister controls most of the media?
I turn to you, ladies and gentlemen, with bitterness, concern and anxiety, and ask you: what can this Parliament do to protect the freedom of information in Italy? Please help us, please help my country to save the democracy for which the forefathers of our Europe battled."@en1
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