Romania: ECPMF helps Active Watch to oppose new draft law
A new draft law was introduced in Romania in October 2017 that threatens the independence of the national news agency, Agerpres. The ECPMF is supporting ActiveWatch to further their resistance against this draft law.
A new draft law was introduced in Romania in October 2017 that threatens the independence of the national news agency, Agerpres. The draft law foresees that any political majority has the liberty to decide and the power to dismiss the director-general of Agerpres by rejecting Agerpres’s annual report, without having to respect or follow any objective criteria for the rejection of the report (such, for example, not meeting…
