Some of the contents:
- Ever since billionaire Elon Musk became “Chief Twit”, policy-makers have been up in arms. Will the bird fly by their rules?
- The EU Commission finally released its much-awaited European Media Freedom Act. “For some it will be too much. For some, too little”, predicted the bill’s “mother”, Commissioner Věra Jourová. She was right.
- A report by a Parliament committee investigating EU governments’ use of spyware says the results of the probe “are shocking and should alarm every European citizen”. Cynics will be less surprised.
- The sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines has put the vulnerabilities of Europe’s critical Internet infrastructure under the spotlight in Brussels.
- An American and a European won the race for the top jobs at the ITU, a UN agency setting world digital standards. May not sound like a big deal – but it is.
- Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic worry about the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok. Originally mostly used by dance-loving teenyboppers, the app has today among its more than 1 billion users the likes of French president, Macron.
Download European Media Policy 3, 2022 (PDF, 488 kB)
European Media Policy is a newsletter published by Nordicom and edited by Anna Celsing. Published three times a year, it focuses specifically on developments in media policy at the European level, such as new proposals for legislation, debates in the European Parliament, recently taken or impending policy decisions, EU studies in the field, and so forth.
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