Law would have prevented companies outside the EEA from holding a controlling stake in Polish media companies
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The Polish president has vetoed a media ownership law that critics said was aimed at silencing the US-owned news channel TVN24, side-stepping a row with
Washington as tensions rise in eastern Europe amid what some countries see as increased
Russian assertiveness.
“I am vetoing it,” Andrzej Duda said in a televised statement, after the EU and the US heavily criticised the law.