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Media Freedom

Media Freedom. The Catch Up Index Findings. What is the Catch Up Index?. Are the ten “new”, post-communist member states of the EU – the EU10 – catching up with the “old”, “Western” EU members? The index registers the level of convergence or divergence along four categories: Economy ,

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Media Freedom

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  1. Media Freedom The Catch Up Index Findings

  2. What is the Catch Up Index? • Are the ten “new”, post-communist member states of the EU – the EU10 – catching up with the “old”, “Western” EU members? • The index registers the level of convergence or divergence along four categories: • Economy, • Quality of Life, • Democracy and • Governance. • The index also includes the EU candidate and potential candidate countries, so there are 35 countries covered by the index.

  3. Catching up in Media Freedom: The Metrics • Metrics in Media Freedom – allows comparisons across countries and correlations with other indicators • Media Freedom is key indicator to measure the Democracy Category; • The Catch Up Index includes the Freedom House and Reporters without Borders media indices released in 2010 (based on 2009 data); • Includes standardized scores of the Freedom House and Reporters without Borders (i.e. the scores were rescaled on a scale from 100 to 0); • Measured on a scale 100-0 (highest to lowest);

  4. Media freedom scores and ranks of 35 European countries • 8 new member states are above the EU15+2 minimal score (“old EU”) • 4 new member states are above the EU27 average • Estonia and Lithuania are doing better than some of the established EU members

  5. Focus on the EU10 group • Most of the “new” members – the EU10 group – are doing well in media freedom, compared to average levels within the EU; • When the difference is smaller than 5 points not substantial

  6. Media Freedom and Economy • Most new member states have better Media Freedom scores than Economy Scores; • Lower economic development does not mean much less media freedom;

  7. Media Freedom and Quality of Life • Most new member states have better Media Freedom scores than Quality of Life scores; • Lower Quality of Life does not mean much less media freedom;

  8. Media Freedom and the other Democracy Indicators • Most of the new member states have higher scores in Media Freedom than in the other Democracy Indicators; • The rest of the EU10 group have similar scores in Media Freedom and the other Democracy Scores; • The graph shows the relation between Media Freedom and the other indicators that measure Democracy (satisfaction with democracy, human rights, voice and accountability, trust in people, overall democracy ratings);

  9. Media Freedom and Governance • Most new member states have better Media Freedom scores than Governance scores; • Better Governance does not mean substantially more Media Freedom in the EU10 group;

  10. Media Freedom and Quality of Education • Almost all new member states have very similar scores in Media Freedom and Quality of Education (measured by the results of PISA - the Program for International Student Assessment); • Media freedom and the quality of education are very closely related in the EU10 group;

  11. The highest correlation in the EU10 group is between Media Freedom and the Quality of Education; • The second highest correlation is between Media Freedom and other Democracy indicators in the EU10; • The correlations between Media Freedom and Quality of Life and Economy respectively in the EU10 are average; • The correlation of Media Freedom and Governance is also average in the new member states; Correlation coefficients - highlights > 1 - 0,6 higher correlation < 0,6 - 0 lower correlation

  12. AssyaKavrakova Program Director European Policies and Civic Participation Program European Policies Initiative Open Society Institute - Sofia www.osi.bg www.eupi.eu

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