2012
Media: Are there positive measures for promoting or restrictions for minority and lesser used language in the media?
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Austria
There are some initiatives in regard to the Slovenian minority in Carinthia. Regarding other national minorities programmes are very marginal and do not fulfil the obligations adequately.
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Bulgaria
There is insufficient media in minority languages.
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Cyprus
Very limited
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Denmark
No.
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Finland
Yes.
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France
There are positive measures for promoting for minority and lesser used language in the media.
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Germany
No. There are no positive measures for promoting but also no restrictions for minority and lesser used language in the media.
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Greece
Both restrictions and positive measures.
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Hungary
Yes.
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Ireland
The national broadcaster, RTÉ, is obliged by its remit to support the Irish language. There is no provision in its remit or in legislation regarding non-native languages.
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Italy
no
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Poland
Public media (radio and tv) are required to account for the needs of minorities, including broadcasting information programmes in minority languages.
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Portugal
The Plano para a Integração de Imigrantes [Plan for Immigrant Integration] adopts several measures concerning the media area of intervention, including promoting cultural and religious diversity in the media and stimulating the media to programming/information that demonstrates the cultural and linguistic expression in the resident migrant communities in Portugal.
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Romania
Yes, there are positive measures.
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Slovenia
There are positive measures for promoting minority languages in the media, but the range of the measures is not equal in the case of all minority languages.
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Spain
Yes.
There are no exact estimates but between press, radio and television they are over 100. There are no mediatic groups in that broadcast in other languages except for a few in English.
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Sweden
Yes.