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April 2, 2019 – EPSC ‘High-Level Speakers Series’Commission internal event. Author’s views only, adapted extracts and title.
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“A Europe-wide public sphere […] will rather emerge from the mutual opening of existing national universes to one another”
Prof. Jürgen Habermas
« La traduction, c’est la langue de l’Europe »
Umberto Eco
“Breaking open the language barrier will blow the potential of AI wide open.”
TechCrunch1
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« Il faut armer médiatiquement l’Union européenne. […] Jamais la Commission ne fera son propre programme de télévision »
President Jean-Claude Juncker2
“We don’t have a European ‘demos’ yet. […] We need to find new models […] Old media and new media know this is about theircollective future”
VP Frans Timmermanns2
“Avoid censorship, dilute fake news, promotequality content”
High-Level Expert Group on disinformation, summary quoted by Commissioner Marija
Gabriel3
2. Resp. Pt and VP, European Commission, speaking on 9 May (‘Schuman Day’) and on 3 May (‘Press Freedom Day’) 2016. Link to video here
1. Vasco Pedro, 2015
3. Commissionner Digital Single Market & Media, quoting Ch. Leclercq at EURACTIV conference on media strategy, 15 October+ Parliament conference on fact checking, 27 September 2018
CONCEPTS ARE READY
POLITICIANS ARE READY!
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“Pour une Renaissance européenne”
E. Macron’s Op-ed on EU sovereignty, fake news and platform regulation(27 media, March 4th 2019)
Open Letter (see back-ups) to J.C. Juncker co-signed by 6 media experts & 6 MEPs
(from 4 groups: S. Guillaume, B. Jávor, M. Løkkkegaard, S.
Muresan, H. Trüpel, J.M. Cavada)
“europäische Industrie-Champions"
(Ministers P. Altmaier and B. Le Maire, Spiegel, Feb. 19th 2019)
« L’Union européenne doit défendre la
viabilité économique des médias »
“The determinators:
Europe takes on the tech giants”
(Why big tech should fear Europe, March 23rd 2019)
“14 Strategic Recommendations for a
European Media Sovereignty”
“digital gangsters in the online world”
(Report)
“a sustainable future for journalism”
(Review by Frances Cairncross)(G. Klossa, Report to VP Ansip)
18 Member States askfor Industrial Policy
(18 Dec. 2018)
Treaty of Aachen foresees media initiatives...
(Open Letter by J.M. Cavada, P. Lamy, E. Widegren, C. Leclercq)
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• Revenue model crisis after ©, balance ecosystem platforms / ads & content / media
• Rising costs of technology and innovation some R&D and skills support appropriate
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• Demagogy, Nationalism platform co-regulation, not just self-regulation & slow legislation
• Disinformation takle media quality + media literacy, fact-checking, trust indicators
• Digital Single Market was necessary, not sufficient new ‘top 10’ priority 2019-2024
• European public space?? Anglo-Saxon dependency cooperations & language tech
• National fragmentation, concentration fears think ahead, European champions?
• Comms’ channel, not tackled as economic sector yet sector strategy / industrial policy
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• Improved media stakeholders’ representation. Help Media bundle together before negotiations vs. platforms
• Europe’s Media Lab in June, for (new) MEPsMedia intergroup @EP ? (not just ‘Culture & creative industries’)
• Commissioner and DG ‘Democracy & media’? (economics-driven, not just ‘tech, rights and subsidies’)
Move from: DSM & short-term election focus to: systemic issues, and from: horizontal to: vertical strategiesEconomic study + sector enquiry on the whole ecosystem (DG COMP, like e-commerce before)
• Sector-policies: (in addition to press freedom, fighting censorship, privacy etc)
Enforce platform commitments re: dinsformation & illegal content, + value related media servicesRe-open directives e-commerce, advertising, data, etc (+ anticipate: soft or competition-based digital regulation)
Innovation: higher media % in Horizon Europe (notably AI, esp. Translation) + public procurement + capital fundIndustry in crisis: social funds approach, next MFF with sector-specific skills (not just journalism)
• Competition: (in addition to individual cases)
Define ‘systemic platforms’, consider ‘essential facility’ or asymmetric regulation for data (thresholds, etc)Warn about potential abuse of dominant positions, e.g. in © negotiationsFacilitate media cooperation or concentration enabling sustainable journalismLevel playing field for other topics: tax, data portability, etc
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End of legislature
2019-2024 new legislature
EU Elections May 2019
Hearings and new President
Sept 2019
New Commission
Oct 2019
2020 Budget
EU agenda
2019
Election campaign
EC report on Code of practice on disinformation
Jan 2019
Journalism Funders’ Forum
Conference with the OIF:Multilingualism and
disinformation
Media policy conference
2020 Work
Programme
Workshop
Part 1:
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• EU top 10 priority?• Support to innovation• Commissioner to lead “DG
Democracy”? • Media Intergroup?
+ Media innovation exchanges:
“Rising Stars” pilot project
May – October 2019: new mandate
EP Elections
May
New Commission
October
EU agenda
- EU top 10 priority- Support to innovation- Commissioner to lead “DG Democracy”? - Media Intergroup
Council 20-21 June
SeptemberWorkshop with the
European Network of Political Foundation (tbc)
Commissioners'Hearings
September
June 4thNetworking
informal event at the EP (tbc)
Strasbourg: Intergroups
2-4 July
June 24th Breakfast and
Conference (tbc)
April 2nd EPSC High-Level Speaker Series:
‘The Role of Media in Democracy’
Part 2:
Goal:
Commission
internal support
Legacy
briefings by & for
Commissioners
MEPs with media
background or
interest find
each other
Future media
intergroup
MEPs listen to media
& convey priorities
to Commission
cabinets
Top 10 priority
MEPs discuss
options with media
stakeholders
Potential
hearings questions
EUROPE’S MEDIA LAB – DETAILS FOR POLICY IMPACT
New work programme
2019-24
EC President’s speech15 July
Main related publication: Open Letter to JC Juncker, by 6 MEPs and 6 media experts FR DE
(Background information: Links Dossier Emerging media policies for EU 2019-24)
Fondation EURACTIV: https://fondationeuractiv.eu/
Media4EU Blog: http://media4eu.blogactiv.eu/
#Media4EU #Stars4media #Erasmus4media @LeclercqEU @FondEURACTIV
Christophe LeclercqChairman of Fondation EURACTIV & EURACTIV Founder: [email protected]
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