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梅洛尼抨擊歐盟“法律戰”對媒體幹涉的指控
在歐盟法治報告中批評意大利後，意大利總理斥責了歐盟委員會主席馮德萊恩。
TEC 新聞 2024 年 7 月 29 日
歐盟委員會主席烏爾蘇拉·馮德萊恩恐懼地對視意大利總理喬治亞·梅洛尼
在歐盟委員會指控政府幹涉國家媒體行業的運營後，意大利總理喬治亞·梅洛尼公開反對“將歐盟法治報告用於政治目的”。
2023 年法治報告中的意大利國家概況在媒體部分開頭聲稱：
公共服務媒體在媒體領域發揮著重要作用，同時需要加強對其編輯和財務獨立性的保障。
對此，梅洛尼聲稱，委員會的調查結果包含：
笨拙而似是而非的攻擊，隻有在假新聞不斷使用、日益汙染歐洲辯論的黯淡背景下才會出現。
《歐洲保守黨》的讀者會熟悉“法治”問題經常被用來騷擾主權主義的歐盟成員國的方式，主要是匈牙利、斯洛伐克和——直到最近——波蘭，後者在前法律與公正黨 (PiS) 政府的領導下。現在看來，意大利保守派正在意識到這種工具主義（和虛偽）的歐盟“法律戰”部署。
不幸的是，目前還不清楚這種承認是否會為意大利政府提供多少保護，以防止歐盟進一步幹涉其內政。
梅洛尼承諾將盡一切努力確保意大利和歐洲“充分尊重歐盟的創始價值觀，並堅持不懈地致力於使意大利在自由信息、打擊假新聞和公共廣播電視服務多元化領域取得進步，而這些領域經曆了數十年的公然政治分配”。
除了陳述自己的立場外，梅洛尼還列出了案件的事實。歐盟委員會引用了數名離開意大利廣播電視公司（原意大利廣播電視公司）的記者和主持人，作為政府向意大利公共廣播公司施壓，要求其改變編輯路線的證據。
作為回應，梅洛尼點名道姓，並解釋說這些離職是就業市場正常運作的一部分。同樣，她提醒烏爾蘇拉·馮德萊恩，她自己的行政和議會多數派“尚未利用現行立法來更新高層管理人員”。現任 Rai 董事會由上屆立法機構任命，“多數票支持，但 Fratelli d’Italia 不在其中”。
Rai 監督委員會的 Fratelli d’Italia 成員對總理致歐盟委員會的信表示感謝：
感謝 Giorgia Meloni 無數次揭露了反意大利左派的把戲，他們不惜用謊言在國外損害意大利，以打擊總理。
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.
