• Coronavirus in Hungary
  • Budapest
  • Hungary border control
  • HelloMagyar
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
The press freedom memorandum was based on assumption rather than facts, says officialThe press freedom memorandum was based on assumption rather than facts, says officialThe press freedom memorandum was based on assumption rather than facts, says officialThe press freedom memorandum was based on assumption rather than facts, says official
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Breaking News
Support us
Daily News Daily News · 30/03/2021
· News To Go

The press freedom memorandum was based on assumption rather than facts, says official

Hungarian government Hungary media
Daily News Hungary

Daily News Hungary

Representatives of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, the justice ministry, and media authority NMHH said in reaction to the memorandum that the document was “biased” and “based on assumption rather than facts” and that it “reopens issues settled years ago”. The document is mostly based on the opinion of “a handful but well-known civil groups critical of the government” and articles by internet portals, which “raises doubts about the objectivity of the memorandum”, they said.

Dunja Mijatovic, human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, said in a memorandum on Tuesday that it was “high time for Hungary to restore journalistic and media freedoms”.

“The combined effects of a politically controlled media regulatory authority and distortionary state intervention in the media market have eroded media pluralism and freedom of expression,” according to the memorandum. Details HERE: Council of Europe: Hungarian press freedom is being compromised

They insisted that Hungary’s media law ensured that the Media Council’s members are not associated with political parties and that the body’s operations are independent of any attempts of political influencing.

They also added that any decision by the Council was appealable at courts.

Hungary’s media legislation is fully in line with the rule of law principles outlined by the European Union and guaranteed by Hungary’s laws, they said.

The representatives voiced the Hungarian government’s “disappointment” that the memorandum was based on “assumption rather than facts” despite the fact that “a number of government agencies had shared their views and background information with its author”.

They said “at a time of uncertainty and a feeling of threat caused by the pandemic it is even more important how such institutions as the Council of Europe give their opinion on a country’s media conditions and rules”. “An objective position and evaluation of member states is more important than ever,” they said.

orbán budapest
Read alsoSurvey: Hungary is only a partly free state like Senegal or Peru

Hungarian government Hungary media
Share
Daily News
Daily News

1 Comment

  1. AlfredE.Neuman says:
    30/03/2021 at 18:57

    For the record, Dunja Mijatovic failed as a cow-herder back in Bosnia so (needless to say) the European Commission felt she was the ideal candidate to be Commissioner for bovine faeces.

    Yet another example of how the mental midgets in Brussels make important decisions ……

    Heaven help ordinary European citizens.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About us

Contact us

Copyright rules

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V