The European Commission has opened a talks with Euronews, the pan-European television news channel, about its future. Euronews receives approximately 36% of its funding from the European Union. The review, which over the next several weeks will consider the network’s strategy, follows recent concerns about new investors in the company.
The channel was launched in 1993 as a joint project of European public broadcasters, but two new investors have raised eyebrows. NTU, Ukraine’s struggling state TV agency, has given up its share in the company to Inter Media Group, which is owned by Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash. Firtash’s close ties to …read more
Source: European Voice
