The Hungarian parliament with the votes of the conservative majority, passed a press law that has no equal in Europe: a reform that allows the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban extensive control over all the media: radio, television, newspapers, and even the Internet. He writes about the writing of PeaceReporter :
approved today by the Hungarian parliament, with a two-thirds majority, the reform of the press, which consolidates the control exercised by the Conservative government of Viktor Orban on all media in the country. The law, strictly opposed by liberal and leftist forces, provides for the establishment of the National Telecommunications Authority, appointed directly by the majority party, which has the power to punish, through eonomiche fines and penalties, the heads of the guilty, yet vague and uncertain, "injury of the public." In addition, the head of the Authority, appointed by Prime Minister Orban, in office for nine years, will have the power to issue decrees. At the same time, it envisages the creation of the national press agency, MTI, which will serve as a unique reservoir of journalistic sources, able to select the news which they can draw on all media in the country as well as free, the general public. The agency, funded by state revenues, will be made, as he had previously stated its director, Csaba Belenessy, professionals loyal to the government. Finally, the measure requires journalists to reveal the identity of their news sources and to comply with the 20% threshold for the crime, while the music should be, 40% of Hungarian origins. The statements of the leadership of Budapest on the consistency and coherence of the reform with the EU directives have not reassured the International Press Institute (IPI), which, following a visit to Hungary, expressed in alarmist tones in describing the plight of the press in the country. Unison chorus of criticism of the OECD.
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