01.02.2019

CMC´s Josef Seethaler on the Right to Information in Austria

Why Austria´s approach to the Right to Information is problematic and what international human right accords have to do with it (derstandard.at-Blog)

CMC´s deputy director Josef Seethaler writes about the Right to Information as a marker of a free press and, ultimately, a free democracy and how international accords such as the European Convention on Human Rights can help mitigate Austria´s problematic national legislation in his call for more transparency in derstandard.at´s media studies blog "Ein Fall für die Wissenschaft".

Link to derstandard.at [German only]