S&D Working Group on Extremism. "Charlie Hebdo", trois ans après: déclin généralisé de la liberté de la presse en Europe. Par Ricardo Gutiérrez, Secrétaire général de la FEJ.
Ricardo Gutiérrez will represent the EFJ at the first meeting of the EU High Level Group on Fake News.
Follow-up mission to Zagreb with EFJ, SEEMO, IPI, RsF, OSCE. With Marijana Camovic, Montenegro, member of EFJ Steering Committee.
Consultations between DG NEAR and representatives from international and non-governmental organisations
Together with CPJ and RSF representatives, Ricardo Gutiérrez (EFJ) and Ernest Sagaga (IFJ) will meet Ambassador Marlene Bonnici about the investigation on the masterminds of Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination in Malta.
The EFJ along with SEEMO and Serbian affiliates UNS and NUNS, is organising a mission to Serbia. More details to follow.
Follow-up Building Trust in Media SEE project LAREG+ members meeting in Podgorica (Montenegro)
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is pleased to be an official partner of the discussion “Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia – Demand for Close International Scrutiny”, held as a side event to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Jan. 22, 2018. Three months to the day after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, MPs Anne Brasseur (ALDE, Luxembourg), Pieter Omtzigt (EPP, Netherlands) and Frank Schwabe (SOC, Germany) announce an event to be held in her honour on the margins of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Jan. 22,…
An event to discuss new business models for operators of digital platforms and new approaches to policy making with experts, workers, politicians and trade unionists, with a view to shape fair work in a digital economy. Co-organised by Shares & Workers, ETUI, ETUC, Ires & Astrees. Held in Brussels. Registration requests to be sent to Sophie Kasiers at ETUI before 8 January 2018: skasiers@etui.org
Event by the Sharers and Workers network and the ETUI
The German Marshall Fund hosts the event, 'Challenges to Democracy in Turkey'. Speakers include Kati Piri, MEP, European Parliament’s Rapporteur on Turkey, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats; Güven Sak, Managing Director, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV); and İlter Turan, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Istanbul Bilgi University.
Bulgaria assumes the presidency of the Council of Europe for the first six months of 2018. At the same time the country is bottom of the table for press and media freedom in the European Union. What are the reasons? What can be done? How can media freedom become part of the political priorities of this presidency? The European Centre for Press & Media Freedom (ECPMF) will discuss these issues with EU policy makers, experts and journalists from Bulgaria. And it will give a short overview of its work. Register via email until 19th January 2018 at conference(at)ecpmf.eu.
#newsocracy III brings together policy makers, academics, journalists, citizens and existing initiatives for transparency of media ownership structures to discuss media ownership concentration in Europe and Spain. The event is hosted by the ECPMF, PDLI and OBCT. ----------------- El European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), la Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información (PDLI) y el Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT), te invitan a #NEWSOCRACY III, la jornada sobre concentración mediática en Europa que reunirá a políticos, académicos, periodistas e iniciativas por la transparencia en la propiedad de los medios. Discutiremos sobre acontecimientos recientes, los peligros de la situación actual y posibles soluciones. Visita la web…
By the Directorate-General for External Policies Policy Department, European Parliament in cooperation with ULB.
The assassination of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia last October is a tragic reminder of the ever-present dangers that crusading journalists and whistleblowers face on a daily basis - even when reporting here inside the EU. The laws that purport to safeguard their and our basic human rights, professional dignity and media freedom are clearly inadequate. With Galizia’s murder and the ongoing cases against the LuxLeaks whistleblowers and Julian Assange, the EU still has a long way to go in offering proper protection for journalists and whistleblowers. In honour of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the European United Left / Nordic…
Meeting with Juan Aristegui, Ambassador Deputy Permanent Representative of Spain to the European Union.