Greece - 2012
Media: Are there positive measures for promoting or restrictions for Migrant and minority media?
- Code:
- RED118
- Key Area:
- Public Life, Culture, Sport & Media
- Strand(s):
- Discrimination, Equality
Short Answer |
There are no positive measures for promoting migrant and minority media. |
Qualitative Info |
On the contrary, there are legal restrictions for migrant and minority media. As Pavlou, M. (2010), Complementary Data Collection: Contribution to the FRA Annual Report 2010, i-red/HLHR-KEMO reports: [The use of specific languages in media] is rather penalized than encouraged. As the ECRI noted in its fourth report on Greece, Law 3592/2007 on the “Concentration and Licensing of Media Enterprises and Other Provisions” adopted on 16 July 2007 provides that the main broadcasting language for radio programmes should be Greek. A number of other requirements on the minimum human and financial resources required to obtain a licence risk endangering smaller regional and minority media.[1] According to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mr. Miklos Haraszti, who intervened in 2007, this law “endangers pluralism by putting a high threshold for minority, community or low-cost broadcasters”.[2] [1] ECRI Report on Greece, Fourth Monitoring Cycle, 15.09.2009, p.48 http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Greece/GRC-CbC-IV-2009-031-ENG.pdf. [2] OSCE Press release: New radio licensing law in Greece restricts minority media, says OSCE media freedom watchdog, available at: http://www.osce.org/fom/item_1_25793.html (27.07.2007). Similar reactions were observed from the Thrace Muslim minority representatives and the press.
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Data | Several newspapers based on migrant initiatives |
Groups affected/interested | Migrants, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities |
Type (R/D) | Nationalism |
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Media |
External Url | http://www.i-red.eu/?i=institute.en.publications.210 |
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