The European Commission's Three-Step Approach to Media Pluralism - a Conduit for the Protection of Freedom of Expression in the European Union?

Abstract

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;" lang="EN-GB">Media pluralism has for decades been subject to scrutiny by the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. It has always come to their agenda as a prerequisite for the established human right of freedom of expression, which is guarded by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ECHR</span>). Obviously, without media pluralism, freedom of expression would be non-existent.</span></p> <div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"></div>

Keywords

• Freedom of Speech
• European Commission