Brussels Moving on Murdoch?

Media pluralism has surfaced periodically in Brussels since the publication of the 1992 European Commission Working Paper on Media Pluralism. Policymakers have skirted around the issue of whether concentration rules can be harmonised, and the Parliament, the Council of Europe and the European Council have periodically voiced concern about the implications of media concentration for European Democracy. The Commission has funded a lot of research, but little progress has been made on new policy instruments, because the issue tends to be guarded rather jealously at the Member-State Level.