The Polish PO (Civic Platform)-led government and left-of-centre SLD party have reached an important agreement over the forthcoming new media law.
According to Rzeczpospolita, a proposal to have the authorities collect receiver licence fee arrears, affecting around 2 million people and totalling up to PLN500 million (€111.8 million) will be scrapped on the grounds that it was both unpopular and unworkable.
The forthcoming law envisages the scrapping of receiver licence fees, used to fund the public service broadcaster TVP and its radio counterpart.