Petra KAMMEREVERT (Germany) - Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

An event aiming to understand how to strengthen the public right to information through the EU Whistleblowing Directive. Hosted by MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (Greens/EFA), Tuesday 4 February 2020 (11AM – 12:30PM) at the European Parliament, Brussels (Room A5E1). Whistleblowers are key to support the right to information and essential sources for journalists. The adoption of the EU Whistleblowing Directive in 2019 has marked an important step in ensuring their protection across the EU, bringing legal clarity and safeguarding the creation of reporting channels. However, the protection granted when whistleblowers uncover the truth publicly remains unclear, and is subject to restricted conditions such…

EESC Conference. The EFJ GS is invited to speak about the current state of play and lessons learned from the May 2019 elections (panel 1).

The EFJ President and staff will meet EU Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova, toi discuss journalists' safety, media pluralism, dinsinformation and media freedom (including ECPMF).

PDLI-FeSP conference. The EFJ GS is invited to speak about media freedom in Europe.

Meeting with Paolo Celot, Founder and Secretary General of EAVI – Media Literacy for Citizenship

VUB and the University of Sussex are co-organizing an expert workshop on online disinformation and electoral regulation on Wednesday 26 February at the Institute for European Studies (Rome Conference Room). It will be an off-the-record working group, with a draft report of recommendations for combatting disinformation distributed in advance to participants for comment and critique (based on comparative evidence gathering across Europe, the Americas and the Commonwealth). The VUB joint research into options for better regulation of disinformation has just been published in the Computer Law & Security Review, based on both a report for the European Parliament and a…