The banning of RT, Sputnik and other Russian state-media, is the dismantling of a classic liberal fundamental right in Sweden and Denmark, and has been done without any public debate. Are we the only ones to notice and care? (Photo: Wikimedia)

Russian media 'censorship' overrules Swedish & Danish constitution

EU & the World

Rule of Law

Nordics

Opinion

by Staffan Dahllof, Asborn Slot Jorgensen and Roger Buch, Copenhagen/Aarhus,

The EU Council of Ministers banned the dissemination of the content of two Russian media in March, followed by three other outlets in June.

The censorship decision was approved by the European Court of Justice in July.

Member states' constitutional defence of freedom of expression has been set aside. And this democratic downturn, has happened almost without public debate, or critical media coverage.

It is hard to underst...

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Author Bio

Staffan Dahloff is a freelance journalist and lecturer. Asborn Slot Jorgensen is a journalist and associate professor. Roger Buch is an associate professor at the Danish School of Media and Journalism at Aarhus.