New publication on free speech and the trajectory of EU media law and policies

Evangelia Psychogiopoulou and Anna Kandyla have published an article titled ‘A values-based Union worthy of the name? Free speech and the trajectory of EU media law and policies’. The paper traces the gradual expansion of EU instruments and initiatives concerning freedom of expression, freedom of information and the role of the media in these areas, maping the relevant instruments and initiatives. It argues that this trajectory owes much to the growing emphasis placed by the EU institutions on the Union values, along with digitalisation and processes of platformisation that have had a marked bearing on EU policy.

The paper is published open access in the CEJC Special Issue 2025, entitled ‘Media Freedom and Deliberative Democracy: Europe in a Comparative Perspective’ which brings together findings from the MEDIADELCOM Horizon 2020 project.