{"id":23601,"date":"2021-10-26T09:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T07:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=23601"},"modified":"2021-10-26T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:01:15","slug":"no-progress-in-media-austrian-ambassador-government-and-big-business-must-stop-interfering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/no-progress-in-media-austrian-ambassador-government-and-big-business-must-stop-interfering\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands off press freedom, Austrian ambassador: Government and big business must stop interfering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian ambassador to Tirana, Christian Steiner told Euronews Albania that our country hasn\u2019t seen any progress or improvements in terms of press freedom, the main reason being intervention from the government and big business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of the press and free speech are important criteria in the process of EU accession talks and this was also reported in this year\u2019s report of the European Commission as well as last year\u2019s, which both, unfortunately, concluded that they couldn\u2019t point out any progress in the field,\u201d \u2013 said the ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he also added that it is crucial for good journalism to do its job without outer intervention from the government and the business sector.<\/p>\n<p>As it pertains to the newly established Agency of Media and Information in Albania, Mr. Steiner said that there is no analog structure currently in place in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot exactly like that, no, but I believe we used to have a similar example, the Federal Media Service, which used to operate until recently but was in fact abolished and dispersed into other structures of the Federal Chancellery,\u201d \u2013 said the ambassador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/10\/25\/defender-europe-coming-back-to-albania-ambassador-kim-historic-moment\/\">Defender Europe coming back to Albania, Ambassador Kim: Historic moment<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/10\/22\/ambassador-soreca-hands-eu-commissions-progress-report-to-dps-basha\/\">Ambassador Soreca hands EU Commission\u2019s progress report to DP\u2019s Basha<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/15\/swedish-ambassador-find-the-trust-in-your-own-state-ambassadors-are-not-a-second-group-of-politicians\/\">Swedish Ambassador: Find the trust in your own country, we can\u2019t be a second group of politicians<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian ambassador to Tirana, Christian Steiner told Euronews Albania that our country hasn\u2019t seen any progress or improvements in terms of press freedom, the main reason being intervention from the government and big business. \u201cFreedom of the press and free speech are important criteria in the process of EU accession talks and this was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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