State Aid for Newspapers by Paul Murschetz

Author:Paul Murschetz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

13.2.4 Since 1972: Direct Support for Pluralism

Following the Serisé-report in 1972, a first government report of a working group analysing state aid to the press appeared as a result of which help was directed to daily newspapers with weak financial resources. Introduced in 1972, renewed in 1982, and institutionalized in a decree on 12 March 1986, this assistance fund for national dailies of general and political interest with low advertising resources (Fonds d’aide aux quotidiens à faibles ressources publicitaires) provided cash to newspapers in the form of an extraordinary operating subsidy in order to safeguard the economic survival and promote pluralism. This subsidy still existed in 2012—important modification has been added in 1998, and a last modification dates from 13 April 2012—and is reserved for publications which satisfy in particular the following conditions (as of December 2012):French language newspapers

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