2020 Annual Report: Attacks on media in Europe must not become a new normal
Launch of the 2020 Annual Report by the partner organisations to the Council of Europe Platform to Promote the Protection…
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EESC report points out decline of media freedom in Europe
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), which is composed of three groups representing the EU’s trade unions, employers’ organisations…
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party aims to regulate journalists
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party wants to regulate the status of the country’s journalists, and to create a…
Italian journalist killed during the Strasbourg attack
On December 13, Antonio Megalizzi, an Italian journalist who had been seriously hurt at the head during the gun attack on the…
Free European Media: Let’s join forces for freedom of the press!
Over 120 journalists, representatives of journalists’ organisations, national media regulators and press councils, as well as academics, politicians, and civil…
Matthew Caruana Galizia’s speech at Free European Media
This is the keynote speech given by Matthew Caruana Galizia, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist at ICIJ, at the conference “Free European Media” which took…
Harlem Désir’s speech at Free European Media
This is the keynote speech given by Harlem Désir, Representative on Freedom of the Media for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in…
President’s speech on Free European Media
This is the welcoming speech given by Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, president of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), at the conference “Free…
EFJ co-organises the “Free European Media” Conference in Gdansk
Over 150 journalists, representatives of media organisations, media regulators and press councils, as well as academics, politicians and human rights…
Polish journalist receives death threats after public Polish TV classifies her remarks as “harmful to Poland”
Dorota Bawolek, a Polish journalist working in Brussels for Polish private TV channel Polsat TV, was targeted by hundreds of…
Media freedom NGOs and professional organisations ask Polish defence minister to drop complaint against journalist
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the European Magazine Media Association (EMMA), the European Newspaper Publishers’…
Polish government to restrict journalists’ access to parliament
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has today strongly condemned the latest attack on media freedom by Poland’s ruling Law…
Coalition of journalists and press organisations highlight importance of defending press freedom on World Press Freedom Day
On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, offers an opportunity to highlight the importance of defending press freedom worldwide, as…
Commissioner Muižnieks calls on Poland to protect the independence of public media
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, issued a statement today, at the end of a four-day…
EFJ-ECPMF-IPI urge the Polish government to guarantee public broadcasting independence
WARSAW, Feb 1, 2015 – The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)…
Polish journalists wiretapped by secret police between 2014 and 2015
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has backed its affiliate in Poland, the Association of Polish Journalists (SDP)’s call for…
