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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the media funded by the United States created to reach people who live under communism during the Cold War, is demanding Kari Lake and the Trump administration About efforts to define the organization.
The lawsuit, filed at a Federal DC Court in Washington, said that the station has not been paid an invoice of $ 7.5 million presented on Monday. He states that financing is undergoing the strings of the Congress bag. Both entities are financed by government subsidies, with about 1% from private donations and other sources, according to demand.
“If you disburse funds such as allocations laws, and if you make these funds available through subsidies as indicated by the International Lady Law, it is not an optional option for the agency,” said the lawsuit. “It is the law. Urgent relief is needed to force the agency to follow the law.”
President Donald Trump is next to Lake Kari on stage during a campaign demonstration in Findlay Toyota Center on October 13, 2024 in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty images)
If the financing does not resume, the station will be forced to fire employees who work to bring News coverage to 23 countries in Europe and Asia in 27 languages.
“This is not the time to give ground to propaganda and the censorship of the adversaries of the United States,” said President and CEO of RFE/RL, Stephen Capus, in a statement. We believe that the law is on our side and that the celebration of our disappearance of despots worldwide is premature. “
The demand appoints the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Victor Morales, the CEO of Usagm in functions, and Kari Lake, a former television presenter In Arizona who later ran for governor and senator who serves as the main advisor of Morales, as accused.
The lawsuit occurred days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at eliminating the USAGM.
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Leaders in Europe have warned that Radio Free Europe could have difficulty finding funds to replace cuts by Trump.
On Monday, Foreign Minister Czechs, Jan Lipavsky, urged the European Union ministers at a meeting in Brussels to consider ways to allow Prague -based service to continue. The EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas called Free Europe “a lighthouse of democracy” and said it was sad that the United States would have decided to reduce its financing, Reuters reported.
“Can we enter with our financing to … fill the void we are going?
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Radio Free Europe began transmitting in 1950 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, HungaryRomania and Bulgaria, all countries behind the iron curtain. Radio Liberty began to be transmitted to the Soviet Union in 1953.
Both entities were alternative news sources for the media controlled by the Soviet Union and other communist governments.
