Television Stations in Cyprus, Slovenia and Sweden are not showing enough European television programmes, the European Union’s executive said Thursday. Under EU rules, at least 50 per cent of the TV Programming in each member state should consist of programmes made in the bloc, in order to boost Europe’s creative industries.
But a European Commission survey on broadcasting, released Thursday, revealed that the figure in Cyprus in 2008 was just 30 per cent, in Slovenia 44.6 per cent and in Sweden 45.5 per cent. The commission ‘calls on these countries to encourage their broadcasters to show more European works,’ a statement released in Brussels said.
EU member states have since 2007 been required to ensure pro- European programming ‘where practicable and by appropriate means,’ giving national capitals broad room to manoeuvre.
There’s just something about that EU Commission that makes me think that freedom is not exactly safe in its hands. Can’t think what it is.