SLOVENIA TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR NEWS AGENCY AFTER EU PRESSURE
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15.11.2021


Euractiv (9 November 2021)

 

Following pressure from the European Union, Slovenia on Monday (8 November) agreed to restore funding to the country’s sole news agency STA, suspended since December after the conservative government criticised its reporting.

The European Commission had asked Slovenia to resume payments saying the freeze presented “major risks for media freedom and media pluralism in Slovenia and consequently in the EU.”

The country currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency.

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