14 Amendments of Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI related to 2016/2030(INI)
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 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Stresses the need to extend the scope of AVMSD to audiovisual media services providers (linear and non-linear) with established headquarters outside of the EU who direct their services to customers in the EU, which could be achieved by requiring the registration of non-EU suppliers or by designating a representative in a Member State (e.g. main country of destination);
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;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that propaganda is a deliberate and planned form of manipulative information mixing (half-) truths and falsehood in an effort to influence attitudes and behaviour of targeted audiences; stresses in this regards that unbiased and reliable, based on facts, and separated from commentaries and evaluation information of developments in the EU countries would prevent to use this information as a fuel for propaganda by third parties; emphasizes that strengthening media environment in the EU countries and ensuring journalists to exercise their professional duties not being hindered by interference on behalf of political institutions and businesses is of pivotal importance in effective counteracting of propaganda;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Regrets that misinformation is also a phenomena which is not unknown in the European media and stresses the need to improve the European media standards, as the best method to prevent influence of the manipulative information by the third parties;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. 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 state of affairs in the European Union while strengthening the overall media environment in the European Neighbourhood and in the EU Member States;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Expresses concern that EU-related information is often too technical and is driven by the activities of politicians, EU dignitaries and official visits which makes it incomprehensible and not appealing to target audiences; stresses the necessity to concentrate communication materials on actual content of meetings, initiatives and projects and its impact on local people and to translate them into simple language with a use of innovative and creative methods for their dissemination and calls to review and update accordingly relevant EU websites; highlights the need to ensure that new ENP portal which is being developed in the framework of OPEN Neighbourhood Programme has not only content geared toward expert community as it is currently planned, but a version customised for general audience; is of opinion that the portal should contain a section on Eastern Partnership bringing together information about the initiative which is currently fragmented between numerous websites;