Poland’s Senate gets ready to vote on a media bill
The Hindu
It would force Discovery Inc., the U.S. owner of Poland’s largest private television network, TVN, to sell its Polish holdings
Poland’s Senate is beginning a two-day session on Thursday, during which it is scheduled to vote —and expected to reject — a media bill seen as targeting a U.S.-owned television network’s ability to keep broadcasting independent news. However, the Senate has no power to stop it altogether. Even with the Senate rejection, the bill can return to Parliament’s lower house for passage. If it passes there, it would then go to the President for his signature. However the bill’s chance of becoming law seems dim at the moment, primarily because President Andrzej Duda says he wouldn’t sign it into law in its current form.More Related News
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