I think you know I wsn't referring to you as an authoritarian simpleton.

I swear I had no idea. If you are saying that it was a strawman with no relevance to anything I have written in the thread, I suppose I can consider that as an apology.

If media ownership in France is an issue, that is a national competency. Please don't blame the EU.

I never blamed the EU for it. On the other hand, it will only be resolved, if ever, on a European level. Oligarchs don't cede that sort of control easily. That will be a civilizational progress.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}