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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Commission launches action against Poland following EU-wide protest
Journalists, broadcasters and media freedom organisations have gathered this morning (13/01/2016) in front of the Polish Embassy in Brussels protesting…
Poland threatens media freedom in Europe
First Hungary and now is Poland threatening Europe’s media freedom. Regardless of the safeguard of European Fundamental Rights charter and…
The Polish media law is signed: our letter to EU Commissioner Oettinger
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda has signed today a controversial state media law. Prior to the next weekly meeting by the…
CoE Secretary General expresses his concern regarding the Polish media law
The Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has written yesterday to Polish President Andrzej Duda expressing his concern regarding…
16 journalists and media staff killed in Europe in 2015
2015 has been another deadly year for journalists, with at least 109 journalists and media staff killed in targeted killings,…
Poland: we are outraged by the abolition of safeguards for pluralism and independence in public service media
The undersigned press freedom and media organisations – European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Association of European…
Polish media reform to exert more control on public service broadcaster
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has today expressed growing concerns over recent announcements by the newly elected government to…
Poland: Journalist Lukasz Masiak beaten to death
According to the Association of Polish Journalists (Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich, SDP), an affiliate of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ),…
Polish journalists acquitted following 24-hour detention
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Polish Journalists Association (SDP) have welcomed the acquittal of two journalists, Jan…
