The Civil Liberties Committee in the European Parliament adopted a resolution which calls for annual EU monitoring of member states’ media laws in order to protect media freedom and to help prevent excessive media concentration. MEPs also called for promoting "ethical" journalism in the EU.

MEPs at the Civil Liberties Committee in the European Parliament approved a resolution which calls for an annual EU-wide monitoring of media laws and measures, both to protect media freedom and to help prevent excessive media concentration. They stressed that the media are a "public watchdog" in a democracy, calling on the EU and its member states to respect and protect the fundamental right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media. This right is not restricted to the traditional media - it also applies to the social media and other new media vehicles, underlines the resolution. In October 2011, the Commission announced that creation of a high-level group to analyse the freedom and pluralism of the media across the EU.

In addition, the resolution urges the EU and its member states to support investigative journalism, as it monitors democracy and uncovers criminal offences. It also calls on promoting "ethical" journalism in the EU, but media regulatory bodies should always be independent and created by the media sector itself. MEPs therefore call on the Commission to propose a legal instrument whereby member states ensure the establishment by the media sector of an independent media regulatory authority. Also, the media sector itself must develop professional standards and ethical codes.

The committee also calls for appropriate funding for public service media to guarantee their political and economic independence. MEPs highlighted that public and private media should play their respective roles in a genuinely balanced dual system.