Amendment No. 7 | Doc. 13078 | 22 January 2013

The state of media freedom in Europe

Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media

Origin - 2013 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 19, insert the following paragraph:

“The Assembly regrets that governments in some member states have replaced senior staff in their public service broadcasters after a change in government in order to influence the political orientation of those broadcasters. In this regard, it is particularly alarming that the Georgian Prime Minister suggested merging the Georgian public service broadcaster with the private broadcaster TV9 owned by his wife and amending the Georgian law on broadcasting.”