Poland To Stop Soros Takeover Of Radio Station
Poland’s government has already indicated that it would attempt to block the group funded by globalist figurehead George Soros, from taking over the country’s second largest radio station.
The billionaire philanthropist has teamed up with publisher Agora SA in bidding for Radio Zet against Fratria, a publisher of a pro-government weekly Sieci, as well as PMPG Polskie Media SA and Polish businessman Zbigniew Jakubas.
Poland is keen on following the trails of Hungary, where a strong anti-Soros campaign drove away Central European University which was founded by the Hungarian-born Soros.
Beata Mazurek, spokeswoman for the ruling Law & Justice party issued the following statement via Twitter:
“The state should do everything to stop market speculators from increasing their influence on the media market.”
However, Bloomberg reported that Deputy Culture Minister Pawel Lewandowski told wPolsce.pl television that the administration does not have the legal means other than usual anti-monopoly legislation to prevent the deal from taking off:
“The problem is how to measure concentration on the media market with multiple platforms and how to measure concentration on the market of ideas, we don’t have tools for that. I’d like to have legal grounds to do it.”
The Law & Justice party (PiS) of Poland has repeatedly pressed for the “re-Polonization” of its foreign-owned media. After an international campaign, the government shelved plans that could push some foreign media owners out.
Last year, the Polish government deported Lyudmyla Kozlovska, a young Ukrainian “human rights defender” working for Soros’s Open Dialog Foundation without any explanation.
The George Soros Open Dialog Foundation called the incident an “act of political nature carried out by the Polish authorities in order to stop the activities of the organization in the country and abroad”.
Polish members of the European Parliament Kosma Zlotowski, Ryszard Antoni Legutko and Ryszard Czarnecki, who represent the Law and Justice (PiS) party, submitted written questions to the European Commission seeking to end the Foundation’s accreditation to the Transparency Register.
However, all of these have been dismissed by the European institutions as “unfounded” concerns.
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