MEPs on the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (‘JURI’) debated, on Monday 5 September, the draft report for an opinion by Angelika Niebler (EPP, German) on the transparency and targeting of political advertising.
In concrete terms, the German MEP’s text makes several changes to the Commission’s initial proposal and insists, first of all, on the importance of differentiating between editorial content and advertising. The text also proposes to limit the scope of this...