{"id":381018,"date":"2024-07-26T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/07\/26\/italiani-liberta-di-espressione-ue-italia\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T13:40:36","slug":"for-italians-freedom-of-expression-is-more-entrenched-in-the-eu-than-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/26\/for-italians-freedom-of-expression-is-more-entrenched-in-the-eu-than-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"For Italians, freedom of expression is more entrenched in the EU than in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels <strong>&#8211; Freedom of expression and speech are more typical of the European Union than of Italy, <\/strong>\u00a0according to what Italians claimed, responding to a specific question in the <a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/eurobarometer\/surveys\/detail\/3232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest Eurobarometer survey<\/a> on EU challenges and priorities for the new legislature. <strong>The majority of men and women surveyed (55 percent)<\/strong> believe that this democratic principle is better respected at the European level than at the national level. The response\u00a0rekindles the controversy and aftermath of the publication of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/24\/non-independent-rai-unprotected-journalists-and-too-much-government-eu-warnings-on-the-rule-of-law-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rule of Law Report, in which the EU executive did not fail to criticize,<\/a> question, and make worrying observations about the health of\u00a0Italy&#8217;s democracy.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-380980 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/eurobar2407.png\" width=\"694\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/eurobar2407.png 694w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/eurobar2407-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/>Italians seem to have doubts about how they live in their own country regarding rights and freedoms since\u00a0that same majority (55 percent) also maintains\u00a0that, compared with Italy, the\u00a0<strong>respect for fundamental rights and values is\u00a0more embodied in\u00a0the\u00a0European Union<\/strong>. The\u00a0perception\u00a0of Italians in Italy\u00a0confirms the reality pictured in Brussels a few days ago, saying that much work is needed to improve.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian figure does not deviate much from the average, signaling that similar impressions about the national situation are widespread. In any case, it resonates as a rebuttal to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/25\/italy-eu-concerns-rule-of-law-nordio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">words of Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio<\/a>, who\u00a0said it was a non-factual, and therefore untrue, representation of reality. The Eurobarometer and\u00a0Italians have spoken: you cannot speak in Italy. Or rather, you\u00a0can speak more freely outside the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurobarometer survey shows that 55 percent of respondents put more trust in Europe regarding fundamental rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":380988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26180,25746,28646,27048,25817,28647,28653,27722,26302],"class_list":{"0":"post-381018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-democracy-en","10":"tag-eurobarometer-en","11":"tag-freedom-of-expression-en","12":"tag-fundamental-rights","13":"tag-italy-en-2","14":"tag-state-of-right-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381099,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381018\/revisions\/381099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}