A national measure requiring a foreign television channel to be broadcast only in pay-TV packages in order to limit the spread of hate speech to the public in the State affected is in line with EU law, Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe stated in his Opinion at the EU Court of Justice on Thursday 28 February (Case C-622/17).
Recorded in the United Kingdom, Baltic Media Alliance broadcasts the NTV Mir Lithuania television channel, a channel whose programmes are mainly in Russian and are...