French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his New Year wishes to the members of the press corps at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, January 3, 2018. "If we want to protect liberal democracies, we must have strong legislation," Macron said in a New Year's address to journalists, adding that the reform he envisaged would also change the role of France's media watchdog CSA. "At election time, on internet platforms, the rules applying to content won't be exactly the same," Macron said. "The closeness which we had on occasions got used to was, I think, neither good for those in government nor for the journalists," he said. "It sometimes led to more importance being given to backroom chatter than to official comments," he said, calling for a "healthy distance" to be maintained with the press.

Source: Egypt Today January 03, 2018 22:07 UTC