Mr Pöttering stressed that the EU needed "the critical eyes" of journalists and that for the European Parliament "the freedom of press, media pluralism and the independent reporting are of the utmost importance".
"Preses neatkarība, mediju plurālisms un neatkarīgas reportāžas Eiropas Parlamentam ir vitāli svarīgas," priekšsēdētājs norādīja.