European Parliament
Bordes, Cauquil and Laguiller (GUE/NGL ),
in writing
(FR)
We voted in favour of the report, despite our not agreeing with the extremely watered down way in which it describes the stranglehold of big business upon the means of expression, everywhere making little more than a nonsense of the term ‘freedom of expression’.
Mr Berlusconi, who is both Prime Minister and one of the largest Italian press magnates, is, in himself, almost a caricature of this stranglehold exercised by big business over the media.

