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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9646

19 April 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/audiovisual
Parliament wants TV programmes subtitled

Brussels, 18/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a written statement adopted in plenary session last week, a majority of MEPs have called for public service television broadcasters in the EU to subtitle all their programmes to make them accessible to as many people as possible. In Europe 83 million people are affected by deafness and the ageing of the population will only see this number increase, say MEPs. They argue that citizens have the right to equal access to information, education and...

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