On Thursday, November 17 2022, at 5 pm the office of MEP Irene Joveva and MEP Klemen Grošelj are organising an event The Liberation Front for Media and Democracy: The Importance and Impact of the European Media Freedom Act, where we will talk about the area of media freedom in the European Union and Slovenia – is it under threat, what is the status of public media in today’s society and how to ensure the independence of the media area both in Slovenia and in the EU.
Among other things, we will also talk about the upcoming European media freedom act (Media Freedom Act – MFA), which represents a new set of rules to protect pluralism and media independence in the EU. The MFA is a proposal by the European Commission to strengthen the internal media market with an aim that the media – public and private – could more easily operate across borders in the EU internal market, without undue pressure and taking into account the digital transformation of the media space.
The guests of the roundtable will be:
- Tone Hočevar, former journalist, editor and TV presenter,
- Ksenija Horvat, journalist,
- Tanja Kerševan Smokvina, research associate at FDV and former secretary at the Ministry of Culture and
- Blaž Petkovič, journalist and assistant at FDV.
For all those who will not be able to attend the event live, we will enable virtual monitoring with direct transmission on the MeP’s FB channel.
Warmly welcome!
