Slovakia is a member country of the European Union since 2004, NATO, UN and others. Achievement of media pluralism and the granting of freedom of speech were key objectives of media not only in Slovakia but also in Central Europe after 1989. New regulatory frameworks that have come into effect varied in their replies to these targets, principally in terms of access. In 1992, at the request of the European Parliament, the European Commission issued a Green Paper: Pluralism and Media Concentration in the Internal Media Pluralism in Central Europe. So that mass media play a essential part in informing the citizens and making democracy work. The analysis showed that 20 years after the decline of communism, the Slovak media system, like the media in every niche of the globe, are undergoing the processes of tabloidization, commercialization, and concentration of media ownership. At the same time, most recently passed legislation harmonized Slovak legislation, with most recent EU regulations in this area (Audiovisual Media Service on Demand, Internet televisions) but also gave perhaps too many advantages to private televisions (main TV news can be interrupted by commercial breaks, etc.).
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