'This comprehensive, easily accessible book will be a helpful companion to students and researchers alike... [a] superb guide to "The Media in Europe".' - Journal of European Affairs

Completely rewritten, the Third Edition of this successful guide to European media systems has also been expanded to include Central and Eastern Europe as well as Western Europe.

Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study.The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Group, a research collective that has been active for more than 20 years and has produced a series of assessments of media policy developments in Europe.

Introduction - Denis McQuail
Austria - Josef Trappel
Belgium - Els De Bens
Czech Republic - Jan [ac]Cul[ac]ik
Denmark - Frands Mortensen
Finland - Marina [um]Osterlund-Karinkanta
France - Jean-Marie Charon
Germany - Hans J Kleinsteuber
Greece - Stylianos Papathanossopoulos
Hungary - B[ac]alazs Kiss
Ireland - Wolfgang Truetzschler
Italy - Gianpietro Mazzoleni
Luxembourg - Mario Hirsch
The Netherlands - Kees Brants
Norway - Helge [sl]Ostbye
Poland - Koral Jakubowicz
Portugal - Manuel Pinto and Helena Sousa
Russia - Elena Vartanova
Slovakia - Andrej [ac]Skolkay
Slovenia - Vida Zei
Spain - Rosario de Mateo
Sweden - Olof Hult[ac]en
Switzerland - Werner A Meier
United Kingdom - Jeremy Tunstall