The Rassemblement National’s plan to privatize public broadcasting could be thwarted by European law: as the Commission reminds us, European legislation on press freedom adopted a few months ago provides guarantees in favor of public broadcasting. « We do not comment on statements by political parties concerning hypothetical future situations », replied a spokesman for the European Commission this morning, whom we had contacted about the legitimacy under European law of the Rassemblement National’s plan to privatize French public broadcasting. Nevertheless, the Commission representative went on to provide us with some…
