#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.
The EFJ will be represented by its General Secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez.
9:00-10:30 Introduction to the seminar. Collective bargaining for self-employed workers in The Netherlands: Heather Kurzbauer (FNV), Maurice Limmen (President of CNV), Caspar de Kiefte (Kunstenbond) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 First results of the research on the mapping of the existing legislation at EU level regulating the conditions and protection of the rights of these categories. Valerio de Stefano (KU Leuven) and Nicola Countouris (University College London). 13:30-14:00 National best cases • Collective bargaining for self-employed workers in Italy (Luca Barilà, CISL) • Collective bargaining for freelance journalists in Sweden and Denmark (Natacha Lopez Balbontin, SJF) • Spain case of collective…
The EFJ will be represented by its General Secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez.
The Council of Europe will be hosting a discussion/debate at the Brussels Book Fair from 22-25 February 2018. The theme of this year’s event will be hate speech and freedom of expression. The event is a round-table discussion, in French and usually involving 3 or 4 speakers, followed by questions and answers from visitors to the book fair. affichette conf 3
The focus of the media freedom and democracy workshop this year will be on the financing of investigative journalism.
In order to honor his memory, a silent vigil will be organized by Jan Kuciak and Martina Kušnírova’s friends and colleagues outside the International Press Center at, Residence Palace Rue de la Loi 155 (Brussels) on Thursday (1st of March 2018) from 12:30 to 13:30.
The EFJ GS Ricardo Gutiérrez will meet Olivier Hoedeman, from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), at EFJ HQ.