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An organisation campaigning for diversity of opinion in public debate, along with other applicants, asked the interim relief judge at the Council of State (Conseil d'État) to suspend the implicit refusal of the French audiovisual regulator (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique – Arcom) and its independent rapporteur to act on their requests concerning the CNews television channel and Europe 1 radio station. In particular, they urged Arcom to abandon its policy of not taking up cases on its own initiative, to strip...

The French audiovisual regulator (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique – Arcom) was asked to intervene in sanction proceedings against the Société d’exploitation d’un service d’information (SESI), the publisher of CNews, following footage broadcast during the programme "100 % Politique" on 2 June and 1 September 2025. The first clip concerned violence that occurred following Paris Saint-Germain’s victory in the Champions League. Comments broadcast on air, in response...

Adopted by the Joint Committee in the middle of the summer, the Act on the organisation, management and funding of professional sport (the Act) was published in the Journal officiel on 4 August. Among other things, this legislation includes a considerable strengthening of the fight against piracy, in particular to enable much more rapid blocking measures during retransmissions of sporting events. It also incorporates an overhaul of the framework governing the marketing and redistribution of broadcasting rights. Chapter III of the Act (Articles 31 to 34) is specifically devoted to strengthening...

On 21 July, the French Parliament adopted, in a joint committee, the law aimed at protecting minors from the risks posed by the use of social media. Shortly afterwards, more than 60 MPs referred Article 1 of the act to the Constitutional Council; this article provided for the insertion into the Act of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy a new Article 6-9 prohibiting minors under the age of 15 from accessing online social media services. The MPs bringing the petition criticised the principle of a blanket ban on access to social media without distinction between the services...

In a decision dated 12 June 2026, the French audiovisual regulator (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique – Arcom) served a formal notice on the broadcaster of the CNews channel to ensure, in future, that its news programmes comply with the requirement for pluralism of schools of thought and opinion. In March 2025, the channel had displayed a clear and persistent imbalance in favour of a single school of thought. The decision follows on from the case law of the Council of State (Conseil d'Etat), in particular the decisions...