European Commission wants to set up a "proposals for EU-wide regulation of the press". Lord Justice Leveson is the one who set up proposals to have wide spread media regulation in the European Union. It has been reported that in a proposal , the European Union would set up media councils giving them the powers "such as the imposition of fines, orders for printed or broadcast apologies, or removal of journalistic status." Some have argue that this seems somewhat fascist; that the idea that the Europe's set of standards for their media would be control by one governing body of the European Union instead of having individual countries running and regulating their own media.
While the European Commission has said that the proposal would up hold the "European values", there are some countries that are already opposed to this proposal. One country that is particularly against this proposal is Great Britain.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport(UK) have been quoted to have said "We have no intention of allowing Europe to regulate the British press. We have been clear that, as set out in the Leveson report, we expect the British press industry to implement tough, independent, self-regulation, in adherence with the Leveson principles.” The Britians have so much pride in their British run media regulations; that they refuse to let any other country or specifically the European Union to control and regulate their media. Who can blame them really.
This proposal looks good on paper but in reality as it stand s as of right now it is a mess to even try to get the proposal approved. One major problem that this proposal has is that European Union has no "legal competence under the treaties to harmonise substantive media laws such as defamation. Any notion of harmonised rules of the game, monitored by the EU, is anathema to press freedom..." Meaning that the European Union could only limit and regulate the press freedom doctrines already set in place by most of the world media. So if this proposal was approved as of right now it would be completely useless since they have no legal right to regulate the media.I personally believe that media should regulate media, that it is a lot more truthfully run although sometimes bias, but at least it is not control by the government or some politician's agenda.