Religion and Media in European Union Law: a balance between protection and regulation
(2014) ISMRC International Conference: Media, Religion and Culture in a Networked World — Location: University of Kent, Canterbury (United Kingdom) (4.August.2014)
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- Article 17, § 1, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union – introduced by the Lisbon Treaty – enunciates that “the Union respects and does not prejudice the status under national law of churches and religious associations or communities in the Member States”. Otherwise put, the European Union recognizes the separation between the Church and the State. However, it is striking to see that the EU regulates the protection of religious and philosophical orientation on television and radio (e.g.: Directive “Television without Frontiers”). If one could argue it is quite logical because the EU has been partly given the competence to regulate the media, another could see the risk of violation of the principle of religious autonomy, which is internationally protected. The aim of my contribution would be to analyse, on a juridical point of view, the way that the European Union makes the balance between the regulation of, on the one hand, protection of religion and, on the other hand, separation or independence between Church and State.
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Wattier, S. (2014). Religion and Media in European Union Law: a balance between protection and regulation. ISMRC International Conference: Media, Religion and Culture in a Networked World, University of Kent, Canterbury (United Kingdom). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/196792