[Opinion] Mercosur Agreement: Press Council Rejects "Krone" for Too Much Opinion in Editorial Text

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A report by the "Kronen Zeitung" on the Mercosur Agreement was to be classified as a commentary without being identified as such, the Press Council explains.

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In an article, the "Kronen Zeitung" makes a mood against the controversial Mercorsur free trade agreement between the EU and a number of South American states. The newspaper mixed a fact report with a comment, according to the Press Council.

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According to the Senate 2 of the Press Council, the article "Here the EU betrays our farmers", published in the "Kronen Zeitung", against point 3.1 of the Honorary Code for the Austrian press (distinction between factual report and commentary). The article deals with the Mercosur Agreement, a free trade agreement between the EU and Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia. [...] The article "Here the EU betrays our farmers" – too many el…