While no EU countries fall in the very high-risk category, the Media Pluralism Monitor report demonstrates that there is significant room for improvement. The report also covers certain enlargement countries where risks to media freedom and pluralism generally register higher risk levels.

The report analyses media pluralism under :  

The fundamental protection and political independence areas register as medium risk in the EU as a whole, while significant risks persist for all EU Member States when it comes to market plurality.

The Media Pluralism Monitor report is a key source of scientific information for the European Commission’s annual Rule of Law report.  

The EU’s European Media Freedom Act, which enters into full application on 8 August, introduces new rules to protect media pluralism and independence in the internal market, including safeguards against political interference in editorial decisions and the use of spyware against journalists, rules for the independent functioning of public service media, for the transparency of media ownership, for the assessment of media market concentrations and for fair and transparent distribution of state advertising.

Alongside this, over the past 5 years the EU has put in place a range of legislation and initiatives to support media freedom and pluralism among others:  

Read more about the Media Pluralism Monitor and the EU policy on media freedom and pluralism.