What Volker spoke about.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen! The European Media Freedom Act It's a Trojan horse, a mockery pack. Under the pretext of protecting the users of the media, this EU wants to introduce more and more control mechanisms and censors through the back door. We as ESN strongly reject this restriction on freedom of expression and media freedom. The network – the elderly will remember – has been hailed as a major step towards democratisation. At last, states without free media were able to talk to each other. But the censors of all stripes have long since restricted this freedom and the EU continues to play along cheerfully. Ms Barley of the Social Democrats spoke of free media – her party comrade Faeser recently banned a free medium in Germany because it had reported critically of the government. The public service media are precisely those in Germany that serve as a propaganda channel for the federal governments and narrow the corridor of opinion ever further. We as ESN are for freedom of expression, for media pluralism and against this act.