Opening session: “Overview of recent trends and policy developments
relating to media pluralism at national and European level”
Pan‐European Forum on Media Pluralism
and New Media
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Speech Ingrid Lieten, 27 June 2012
1. Speech Ingrid Lieten, 27 June 2012
Pan‐European Forum on Media Pluralism
and New Media
Opening session: “Overview of recent trends and policy developments
relating to media pluralism at national and European level”
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear guests,
I consider it a privilege to address you at this pan‐European conference
on media pluralism and new media. I would like to congratulate the
organisers for taking the initiative to realize such a large‐scale event in
such a unique location.
During the next ten minutes I will give you some background to the
Flemish media landscape. After that, I will briefly discuss the Flemish
policy accents and efforts regarding media pluralism. I will also describe
to you how Flanders monitors pluralism and responds to it in terms of
policy.
First of all, I wish to point out that Flanders has a fairly pluralistic media
landscape. Currently, media companies, such as Roularta, Corelio, De
Persgroep, Concentra and the public broadcasting company VRT, work
with an integrated model: They are oriented towards the printed media
through the publication of newspapers and magazines, as well as towards
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