The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a research tool that was designed to identify potential risks to media pluralism in the European Union’s Member States. The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) regularly carries out an annual implementation of the MPM in all the EU’s Member St...
As the data from the Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 shows, EU Member States generally do not impose any restrictions on foreign ownership. That is the case for 23 countries out of 28. There are only 5 Member States that establish some kind of regulatory restriction on foreign ownership in the medi...
This Final Study is the result of the ‘Study on the enforcement of State aid rules and decisions by national courts (COMP/2018/001)’ (the ‘Study’), carried out for DG Competition of the European Commission by Spark Legal Network, the European University Institute, Ecorys and Caselex, with the su...
Pluralism of the media constitutes one of the essential pillars of democracy. Freedom of expression and freedom and pluralism of the media are enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Article 11), and their protection is underpinned by Article 10 of the European Conv...
On 20 April 2018 the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Assonime jointly organised a workshop at the European University Institute’s (EUI) campus in Florence. The title of the event was ‘Antitrust enforcement in Europe after Intel and Cartes Bancaires, a kind of trouble to enjoy’. Th...
The Policy Brief summarizes the discussion which took place on 26th – 27th June 2015 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in the context of the first workshop of ENTraNCE for Executives. The workshop focused on the application of antitrust compliance programs in Europe. The wor...
The study analyses media freedom and pluralism in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia) in light of the EU enlargement policy. Despite the different stages of their EU accession paths, these countries share...
On 12 October 2018, the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies hosted the third Annual Conference of the Florence Competition Programme (FCP) at the European University Institute’s (EUI’s) campus in Florence. The conference discussed the challenges that are linked to abuses of Standard Essen...
