Hosted by MEP Jaromír Štětina (EPP, CZ)
The Eastern Partnership media landscape and capacity of the EU Eastern neighbours to monitor and confront propaganda is the focus of this debate. The enduring monopolization of the media market by state or powerful elites has deprived the audiences in the EaP countries of an effective variety of sources of information. At the same time, the region is involved in the disinformation war in which the Eastern Partnership is presented as an anti-Russian project that leads to the loss of sovereignty of the partner countries.
How to sustain independent media outlets confronting propaganda? What is the role of the public service broadcasters? What can the media communities in the EU and EaP countries learn from each other?
Introductory remarks by MEP Jaromír Štětina (EPP, CZ)
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