Sven Giegold

Month: May 2019

Stop arms exports to Saudi Arabia, defend press freedom!

macron Dear friends, Dear interested,   Yannick Jadot and I are horrified by the arms shipments from France and Germany to Saudi Arabia, although the Macron government knew that the weapons are used against civilians in Yemen. It is one of many reasons why we share Macron’s European ambition, but certainly not a group in […]

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Green study reveals dangerous media concentration in Hungary: 78 percent of news media under Orban’s control

A study by Hungarian media expert Agnes Urban, commissioned by Sven Giegold, calculates the media concentration in Hungary for the first time: “Altogether 77,8% of the political/public affairs market is financed by sources decided by the ruling party.” In the 1990s and 2000s, media in Hungary were not free of political influence, but were subject […]

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