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France: Public Broadcasters on Strike Against Media Merger

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The Facts

  • Staff at France’s major public broadcasting groups are striking for two days to protest controversial government plans to merge their services into a media giant.

  • Public broadcasting unions called for protests on Thursday and Friday against a reform of public broadcasting that was voted on by the Senate in June 2023, but extensively amended in the National Assembly committee in mid-May.

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