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Media and digital culture

The Commission supports the digital transformation and competitiveness of the audiovisual and media sector in order to stimulate access to quality content and media pluralism.

The move to digital has brought with it new ways of experiencing the world around us. We can access news wherever we are from a wide choice of sources and platforms. A vast range of different movies, TV and radio shows produced in Europe are now available to an increasingly wide audience.

However, this era has brought with it new challenges. Disinformation spreads faster online than it ever did in the offline world, with potentially damaging consequences while journalists and media outlets face various obstacles in several countries. Media service providers may find their content unfairly removed by very large online platforms or not easily accessible in user interfaces. 

Over the past few years, the EU has stepped up its work in this field to address many of these challenges with actions such as: 

 

 

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Ukraine joins the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe programme

Today, Ukraine joins the Media strand of the Creative Europe programme, which supports the audiovisual sector by funding selected projects related to film development and distribution, online and TV content, as well as the creation of innovative tools and business models in the audiovisual industry.

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