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Anti-Orbán media in Hungary financed by European Parliament’s Socialist group

The Editorial Board February 1, 2023

Originally published in French on the website of the Observatory of Journalism on 21 January 2023. The press is so “muzzled” in Hungary that it can freely go in for the most virulent Orbanophobia with financial support from Soros, work in collaboration…

Magyar Nemzet

No balance in the Western media

The Editorial Board November 24, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 19 November 2021. The left liberal mainstream would suppress conservative values everywhere possible With the advent of progressive ideology, media pluralism has lost its sense of balance, said Balázs…

News

Prominent Polish journalist turned away from UK for his opinions

The Editorial Board October 6, 2021

Poland/UK – Well-known Polish journalist Rafał Ziemkiewicz had an experience reminiscent of his own country’s communist past on Saturday (September 2) at London Heathrow Airport. He had just landed with his wife and daughter for a two-day private visit, but he was…

Politics

PiS accused of undermining media pluralism and freedom, again

Olivier Bault July 20, 2021

Poland – Already dubbed “Lex TVN” by its critics, a law that would force the American owner of one of Poland’s two major private television groups to sell at least part of its shares is worrying the opposition and setting American diplomacy…

Politics

Can this new scandal really weaken PiS in Poland?

Olivier Bault March 29, 2021

Poland - Since February 26, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has been making numerous revelations about the CEO of the Polish oil company PKN Orlen. Orlen, a former state company, remains 27% state-owned, and the government of Mateusz Morawiecki therefore had a decisive…

Society

Are media freedom and pluralism really under threat in Poland?

Olivier Bault March 19, 2021

Poland - On Wednesday, March 10, the European Parliament held a plenary debate on “Government attempts to silence free media in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia”. That discussion had been announced a week earlier on the European Parliament’s website, in a newsletter titled…