Activities of Angel DZHAMBAZKI related to 2016/2030(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the adoption of the Action Plan on Strategic Communication and the establishment of the East StratCom Team within the European External Action Service (EEAS) with the aim of countering anti-EU propaganda and disinformation while strengthening the overall media environment in the European Neighbourhood and in the EU Member States;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the need to strengthen the media environment and independent media, especially in the EU neighbourhood, inter alia through support for journalists and the development of capacity-building programmes for media actors, fostering information-exchange partnerships and networks, such as content- sharing platforms, media-related research, training opportunities for journalists and placements with EU-based media to facilitate exchanges of best practices; welcomes the launch of the Media Hub project targeted at the development of independent media in the European Neighbourhood; advocates stronger cooperation between EU institutions, the European Endowment for Democracy, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and Member States in order to avoid duplication and ensure synergy in similar initiatives;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that propaganda is often a deliberate and an orchestrated form of manipulative information based on half- truths and deceptions in an effort to influence attitudes and behaviours of targeted audiences; stresses in this regards that an unbiased, reliable and objective communication and flow of information based on facts concerning developments in EU countries would prevent the dissemination of propaganda fuelled by third parties; emphasises that strengthening the media environment in EU countries and ensuring that journalists are able to exercise their professional duties without interference from political institutions and businesses is of crucial importance in counteracting propaganda;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Regrets that intentional dispersal of misinformation is also a phenomenon not unknown in European media therefore stresses the need to raise standards as the best method in preventing the dissemination of manipulative information by third parties;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of communicating EU policies effectively, internally as well as externally, and of ensuring access to information in local languages; welcomes, in this context, the launch of the EEAS website in Russian; underlines that particular attention should be paid to new technologies – including digital broadcasting, mobile communications, online media and social networks (including those of regional character, which in some areas are often more popular than the global ones) – which facilitate the dissemination of information about, and increased awareness of, the European values enshrined in the Treaties.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Expresses concern that EU-related news is often overly technical rendering information incomprehensible and unappealing to audiences; stresses the necessity to concentrate communication materials on the substance and content of political meetings, initiatives and projects, and their subsequent regional impact through comprehensible, innovative and creative dissemination methods and calls to review and update accordingly relevant EU websites; highlights the need to ensure that new ENP portal - currently being developed in the framework of OPEN Neighbourhood Programme - accumulates not only content addressed at expert communities, but should consist also of a section customised for larger audiences; is of the opinion that the portal should contain a section on the Eastern Partnership bringing together information on initiatives currently fragmented between numerous websites;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Notes that instead of developing and pushing for positive messages regarding EU policies towards the Eastern neighbourhood, the EU strategic communication should first and foremost focus on combatting propaganda and disinformation as well as objective information about the state of affairs in the European Union;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Is of the opinion that the forthcoming AVMSD revision should take into account challenges linked with combating the dissemination of propaganda by third parties; highlights the importance of addressing such problems as forum-shopping - used to evade rules which provide a minimum of control over content, a minimum level of consumer protection - and problems related to narrow scopes of national security criteria and insufficient level of cooperation between European national media regulators;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Points out to the potential of popular culture and entertainment- education (EE) as an articulator of shared human values and a communicator of European policies;