On Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 9 a.m., we are preparing an interactive discussion with students about media freedom in the EU.

The main thread of the event will be the upcoming European Media Freedom Act (MFA), where speakers will first present the act, followed by an interactive workshop for students.

Participants in the event will be:

• MEP Irena Joveva
• Minister of Culture Asta Vrečko
• Lenart J. Kučić, media adviser to the Minister of Culture
• dr. Marko Milosavljević, Chair of Journalism, FDV

When presenting the act, the speakers will focus on why we need this act, what it brings and what it means for Slovenia and media freedom throughout the European Union, as well as how to enable independent and objective media that people trust. The discussion will also be interesting from the point of view of the outcome of the referendum on RTV. This part of the event is expected to last just under an hour.

In the interactive workshop, the students will be assigned tasks in groups, where their goal will be to analyze the aforementioned act and find solutions and compromises that would ensure an adequate solution to the issue of media freedom. At the end, they will briefly present their ideas as a group, followed by closing comments.

Warmly welcome.

The Europe Direct Pomurje information point is, in cooperation with Murska Sobota Gymnasium, implementing the “European Picnic” project, with which it aims to draw attention to topics that have a wider European context in the local environment. MEP Irena Joveva will attend the event on Friday, November 25, 2022. The topic of this meeting will be media literacy.

The central event will take place as a dialogue with citizens, in which young people will play a central role. On the occasion of the European Year of Youth, it is important to enable this target group to express their opinion on important EU content to the greatest extent possible.

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!