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Roberta Metsola appointed rapporteur for EU anti-SLAPP effort

Roberta Metsola appointed rapporteur for EU anti-SLAPP effort
Apr 19 2021 Share

Roberta Metsola has been appointed as a rapporteur for an initiative that will see the implementation of EU-wide rules against ‘Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation’, also dubbed SLAPPs. Together with German S&D MEP Tiemo Wölken, Metsola will be drafting a report aimed at getting a wide-reaching agreement which prevent SLAPPs across the EU bloc.

Metsola said that this is ‘a water-shed moment for journalism in Europe. Journalists face threats of not only violence and murder but legal suites from unscrupulous actors who seek to silence media houses with the threat of vexatious lawsuits.’ On a Facebook post, Metsola dedicated this effort to Daphne Caruana Galizia and every media house, journalist, blogger and NGO who have suffered or been threatened by ‘crooked politicians’ and ‘corrupt corporations’.

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BREAKING – Super League players to be banned from World Cup and Euros.

BREAKING - Super League players to be banned from World Cup and Euros.
Apr 19 2021 Share

Following the uproar caused by the announcement of the Super League, in which 12 renowned teams will be participating, the UEFA President Alex Ceferin took to Twitter to announce that ‘We are all united agains this nonsense of a project… The players that will play in the closed league will be banned from playing in the World Cup and Euros.’

Ceferin continued by saying that ‘I cannot stress more strongly how everyone is united against this disgraceful self-serving proposals, fuelled by greed above all else.’ The 12 teams concerned include big names such as Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Juventus among others.

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Malta could host 2023 Under-19 UEFA Championship Finals

Malta could host 2023 Under-19 UEFA Championship Finals
Apr 19 2021 Share

It seems that the Executive Committee will approve Malta’s hosting of the 2023 U19 Championship Finals. The Malta Football Association (MFA) posted on Facebook stating that ‘indications are that UEFA EXCO will be considering favourably Malta’s bid to host U19 UEFA Championship FINALS in summer 2023’. Both 2020 and 2021 U19 were cancelled due to COVID-19, with 2022’s finals due to take place in Slovakia.

📢 The UEFA Executive Committee has officially confirmed on Monday that Malta has won the bid to host the U19 UEFA Championship in summer 2023 ⚽️🏆🏟🇲🇹#UnitedForMalta #UEFAU19

Posted by Malta Football Association – 1900 on Monday, 19 April 2021

Should Malta indeed host the 2023 finals, it will mark the second time our country has hosted a UEFA tournament after having hosted the U17 finals in 2014. The MFA stated that it first entered the bid to host in 2024, but it seems it could be happening a year earlier.

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The Lord of the Rings series to cost $465 million for first season

The Lord of the Rings series to cost $465 million for first season
Apr 19 2021 Share

Amazon is planning a series based on the J.R.R Tolkien novels ‘The Lord of the Rings’, and the first season alone is set to cost the production company $465 million. The immensely anticipated series is said to be ‘the largest television series ever made’ and the apparent first season cost seems to back it up. Stuart Nash, Minister for Economic Development and Tourism in New Zealand, where the series is set to be filmed, said that Amazon is going to spend about NZ$650 million in season one.

If we were to compare it to other productions, Game of Thrones cost about $100 million per season. The series itself is set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, showing fans of the Middle-Earth universe the very formation of their favourite fictional world.

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