The European Newspaper Publishers’ Association (ENPA) and the European Magazine Press Association (EMMA) are concerned about the Commission’s mid-September publication of the Media Freedom Act, which amounts to “a new attempt by the EU to seize legislative competence for the print and digital media”, they warned on 1 September.
“The attempt to impose new regulatory bodies or to extend existing ones to all media, including the press, de facto thwarts the very notion of a media...