Fake news, manipulative algorithms, the establishment of vast government-controlled press groups and the suffocation of the independent media: the freedom to inform and pluralism of the media are being challenged all over Europe. Above all in Hungary and Poland, where a recent editorial in Le Monde observed the “inexorable deterioration of press freedoms […] under the gaze of a largely impotent European Union”. However, for the first time, the news media sector is set to receive support in the form of various measures under the cross-sectoral component of the Creative Europe programme, with a view to promoting media literacy, pluralism and media freedom. In association with Relais Culture Europe and to mark Sphera Day, European Lab will explore the treatment of the news media in the European Commission’s new Culture and Media programmes. With: Zsuzsa Mekler — Auróra / HU Márton Gegerly — HVG / HU Pascal Brunet — Relais Culture Europe / FR Mathilde Vasseur — Relais Culture Europe / FR Moderation: Baptiste Roger-Lacan — Le Grand Continent / FR European Lab, 10 years: the battle of the narratives from 8 till 10 June 2021 — Lyon, France europeanlab.com