NoBillag - a threat to Europe's public broadcasting?
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In Switzerland, friendships are being threatened by divisive debate surrounding the so-called ‘No Billag’ referendum. No Billag calls for the abolition of Switzerland’s annual compulsory licence fee for public service broadcasting – the bureaucracy that collects the fee is known as Billag – which currently costs every Swiss household 451 francs (385 euro) each year.
Martin Kraft, MJK54570 Stephan Ruß-Mohl (Frankfurter Buchmesse 2017), Die Größe von ECPMF, CC BY-SA 3.0
Opponents, who consider the payment unfair, want to scrap Billag altogether. However, the real target is the Swiss public broadcaster, SRG SSR, itself: an increasing number of citizens want…
