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梅洛尼抨击欧盟“法律战”对媒体干涉的指控
在欧盟法治报告中批评意大利后，意大利总理斥责了欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩。
TEC 新闻 2024 年 7 月 29 日
欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩恐惧地对视意大利总理乔治亚·梅洛尼
在欧盟委员会指控政府干涉国家媒体行业的运营后，意大利总理乔治亚·梅洛尼公开反对“将欧盟法治报告用于政治目的”。
2023 年法治报告中的意大利国家概况在媒体部分开头声称：
公共服务媒体在媒体领域发挥着重要作用，同时需要加强对其编辑和财务独立性的保障。
对此，梅洛尼声称，委员会的调查结果包含：
笨拙而似是而非的攻击，只有在假新闻不断使用、日益污染欧洲辩论的黯淡背景下才会出现。
《欧洲保守党》的读者会熟悉“法治”问题经常被用来骚扰主权主义的欧盟成员国的方式，主要是匈牙利、斯洛伐克和——直到最近——波兰，后者在前法律与公正党 (PiS) 政府的领导下。现在看来，意大利保守派正在意识到这种工具主义（和虚伪）的欧盟“法律战”部署。
不幸的是，目前还不清楚这种承认是否会为意大利政府提供多少保护，以防止欧盟进一步干涉其内政。
梅洛尼承诺将尽一切努力确保意大利和欧洲“充分尊重欧盟的创始价值观，并坚持不懈地致力于使意大利在自由信息、打击假新闻和公共广播电视服务多元化领域取得进步，而这些领域经历了数十年的公然政治分配”。
除了陈述自己的立场外，梅洛尼还列出了案件的事实。欧盟委员会引用了数名离开意大利广播电视公司（原意大利广播电视公司）的记者和主持人，作为政府向意大利公共广播公司施压，要求其改变编辑路线的证据。
作为回应，梅洛尼点名道姓，并解释说这些离职是就业市场正常运作的一部分。同样，她提醒乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩，她自己的行政和议会多数派“尚未利用现行立法来更新高层管理人员”。现任 Rai 董事会由上届立法机构任命，“多数票支持，但 Fratelli d’Italia 不在其中”。
Rai 监督委员会的 Fratelli d’Italia 成员对总理致欧盟委员会的信表示感谢：
感谢 Giorgia Meloni 无数次揭露了反意大利左派的把戏，他们不惜用谎言在国外损害意大利，以打击总理。
Meloni Slams EU 'Lawfare' Over Media Interference Claims
The Italian PM scolded Commission President von der Leyen after Italy was criticised in EU Rule-of-Law Report.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Photo: © European Union, 2024, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni has spoken out against the “political use of the EU Rule of Law Report,” after the European Commission alleged government interference in the running of the national media industries.
Italy’s country profile within the 2023 Rule of Law Report starts its media section by claiming:
Public service media play a major role in the media landscape while safeguards for their editorial and financial independence need to be strengthened.
In response, Meloni claims that the Commission’s findings contain:
clumsy and specious attacks that can only take hold in the bleak context of the recurrent use of fake news that increasingly pollutes the debate in Europe.
Readers of The European Conservative will be familiar with the way that ‘rule-of-law’ concerns are routinely used to harass sovereigntist European Union member states, primarily Hungary, Slovakia and—until recently—Poland, under its former Law and Justice (PiS) government. It now appears that Italian conservatives are waking up to this instrumentalist (and hypocritical) deployment of EU ‘lawfare’.
Unfortunately, it is not apparent right now that such recognition will offer much of a shield for the Italian government against further EU interference in its domestic affairs.
Meloni has promised to make every effort to ensure in Italy and in Europe “full respect for the founding values at the basis of the European Union and the assiduous commitment to make Italy progress in the field of free information, the fight against fake news and the pluralism of the public radio and television service after decades of brazen political allotment.”
In addition to stating her position, Meloni also sets out the facts of the case. Several journalists and anchormen leaving Rai (formerly Rai – Radiotelevisione italiana) were cited by the European Commission as evidence of government pressure on the public broadcaster in Italy to adopt changes to the editorial line.
In response, Meloni named names and explained these departures as part of the normal functioning of the job market. Likewise, she reminded Ursula von der Leyen that her own executive and parliamentary majority “have not yet made use of the current legislation for the renewal of top management”. The current Rai Board of Directors was appointed by the previous legislature, “by a majority of which Fratelli d’Italia was not a part.”
The Fratelli d’Italia members of the Rai Supervisory Commission commented on the prime minister’s letter to the European Commission by thanking Giorgia Meloni:
for having unmasked for the umpteenth time the game of the anti-Italian left, which with its lies has no qualms about damaging Italy abroad in order to hit the Prime Minister.
