The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) looks at European Union member states as well as candidate countries, Albania, Montenegro, the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. The majority of the countries ranked as low risk in most categories. Turkey stood out with negative scores in the right to information and freedom of expression category. Luxembourg was ranked as low risk overall, alongside 19 of the 32 countries.

The grand duchy received a positive assessment in the protection of people’s right to information, which was classed as being at low risk. The MPM outlined an improvement in most countries from last year which it attributed to the transposition into national law of EU-Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of whistleblowers. That legislation was transposed in Sweden and Denmark. Luxembourg on 19 January to transpose the EU’s 2019 whistleblower directive into national law. It is also planning on as well as offering better protection for employees who reveal misconduct or wrongdoing as part of the 2019 directive.

Luxembourg was among the 15 countries in which the impact of online disinformation was assessed as high. Sub indicators such as hate speech have increased on average among EU member states. However, the MPM points to changes in its questionnaire and additional variables aiming to better comprehend risks of disinformation. Only Belgium and Denmark ranked as low in their risk of disinformation.

MPM’s data shows that 2021 was characterised by an economic recovery in all EU member states leading to better economic sustainability of media productions. In most countries media revenues are still not back to pre-covid-19 levels, states the report. Germany is the only country classed as low risk in that category, while Luxembourg was among 15 other countries placed in the medium risk bracket.