/ world in the present day information/ A mission of European MPs, members of the Monitoring Group for Democracy of the European Parliament (EP) is arriving in Bulgaria subsequent week. The MEPs have despatched invites to President Rumen Radev, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, Minister of Justice Atanas Slavov, Minister of Inside Affairs Kalin Stoyanov, Minister of Tradition Krastyu Krastev, i.f. chief prosecutor Borislav Sarafov, journalists and non-governmental organizations. This was introduced by Elena Yoncheva, MEP from the group of Socialists and Democrats, in an interview with bTV.
The mission will talk about with the representatives of the chief energy and the establishments the judicial reform, the struggle towards corruption on the highest ranges of energy, the state of media freedom and pluralism, the safety of civil liberties. The chairman of the Monitoring Group Sofia int Veld may even be in Sofia. The group consists of solely 14 MEPs – two from every political household, with Elena Yoncheva being the one consultant from Bulgaria. In June this yr at a closed session in Brussels, the then chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev was heard.
The primary mission in Sofia was in September 2021. The report after her conferences on Bulgaria was extremely essential. The conclusions turned a part of the annual studies on the rule of regulation that the European Fee prepares for all member states. They assess the state of affairs in 4 main areas – judicial system, struggle towards corruption, media freedom and civil rights.
Defending media freedom and journalists is a key a part of the European Media Freedom Act, which was handed this week by the European Parliament with a big majority. Elena Yoncheva was a co-rapporteur on it on behalf of the group of socialists and democrats. On the insistence of the political group and after lengthy negotiations lasting practically 4 years, the regulation said that neither journalists nor their sources might be wiretapped or tracked when it pertained to their work. The present exception within the authentic textual content proposed by the European Fee – besides in the case of nationwide safety – has been dropped. In case against the law is discovered, there’s a process that may enable it.
It was of explicit significance to us to introduce a restriction on social networks reminiscent of Fb, Tik Tok and Ex (previously Twitter) to obtain high quality media content material. The objective is to don’t have any censorship, commented Elena Yoncheva. “What is going on? They’re positioned exterior of Europe. For our media publications – Bulgarian and European, we can not depend on the standards of establishments and people positioned exterior Europe. We now have assumed that these platforms can not obtain media content material. If they struggle, it must be difficult – the media must be protected,” she defined to bTV.
Tough negotiations are forward with the Council, the place all member states are represented. The ambition is to have the regulation lastly authorized by February subsequent yr, mentioned Elena Yoncheva.
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