impatience grows amongst contributors | EUROtoday

Can Emmanuel Macron’s promise, throughout the 2022 presidential marketing campaign, to safeguard the appropriate to free and unbiased data, and to ensure pluralism, be saved? Fifteen months after the presentation of its report, in 2024, the States General of Information (EGI) nonetheless don’t have any concrete legislative translation, and contributors are rising impatient. “The disappointment is all the greater when we compare the vibrant mission letter of the President of the Republic and his landing, non-existent to date”notes Elsa Da Costa, normal director of the NGO Ashoka France, who was a part of one of many EGI working teams.

An EGI invoice is however within the pipeline, however it’s gradual to be offered. After a rereading by the Council of State in November 2025, its passage to the Council of Ministers should happen by the top of January or the start of February, in accordance with the Ministry of Culture. The textual content should be structured round 4 themes: belief within the media, their independence, their financial mannequin, and pluralism.

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