“Solid media sector” –

The latest report on the rule of law “showed that the legal framework regulating the media sector in Italy is solid and effective, while the media regulator is independent and equipped with sufficient resources”. This was not said by a RAI official or a member of the majority, but by the spokesperson of the Commission for Justice and the Rule of Law of the European Union, Christian Wigand, during the press briefing in Brussels, deleting with a wipe the theorems on the case linked to the cancellation of the monologue of the writer Antonio Scurati foreseen in the Chesarà broadcast hosted by Serena Bortone. On the case that sparked the left, Wigand underlines that “we have seen the press reports, but we have no specific information. It is a national issue”.

“Regarding the potential acquisition of Agi, we have seen the press reports which seem to be many, there seems to be a lot of speculation regarding it but it is not clear and we do not comment specifically – continued the spokesperson -. In general, the independent media are a fundamental pillar of European democracy. The European law on media freedom which will allow an assessment of media market concentrations which might have a significant impact on media pluralism and the so-called tests of editorial pluralism and media independence In the future, media service providers will have to make public, among other things, the names of their owners and ensure greater transparency in our Member States.” Chief spokesperson Eric Mamer notes that “it is not the role of the European Commission to intervene in individual cases in which we are not even a party and do not necessarily have all the facts.”

“The statement by the spokesperson of the EU Commission, questioned on the so-called Scurati case and on the hypothesis of a sale of Agi, dismantles the new propaganda frame, for electoral benefit, of the left”, commented the leader of Forza Italia in the European Parliament Fulvio Martusciello . “In Italy there is no control of the mass media by the Government – adds Martusciello – and the only censorship comes from the thought police of the left and its coryphaes of single thought. Then the complaints regarding alleged censorship come from the Democratic Party , used to occupying public networks for decades, is truly hilarious.”