Meeting with MEP
Claudia Gamon (Renew Europe Group - Austria)
Claudia Gamon (Renew Europe Group - Austria)
The right to freedom of expression is largely declining in South-East Europe. Attacks against journalists are on the rise, followed by high impunity rates, non-transparent media financing, self-censorship and bad implementation of freedom of expression standards. Journalists and media workers are at the core of these trends and practices. In order to empower journalists to deal with increased number of challenges, Civil Rights Defenders is organising the 1 st Regional Journalists Days. The event is envisaged as an open space for discussing the challenges ahead for journalists, citizens’ journalists and media workers that are working in increasingly hostile environments. In…
The EFJ Broadcasting Expert Group (BREG) will meet at the EFJ Brussels office. EBU representatives will also meet with the BREG members during this occasion to discuss recent attacks and challenges on public service media.
The EFJ Presidend will join this ECPMF-EFJ-EBU-Nordic Publishers mission to Prague.
Michael J. Oghia | Advocacy & Engagement Manager Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
This conference is organised by the European Commission.
The Renew Europe event “Risking everything to uphold EU values and democracy: protecting journalists in the EU” will take place in the European Parliament on October 17th, 2019 from 10h to 13h30. The event is dedicated to the protection and support of independent media and investigative journalists. This initiative aims to be the start of a close collaboration between the legislators and independent journalists taking the shape of two initial workshops, where journalists and civil society partners can meet and discuss their necessities in areas such as future EU legislation, future financing mechanisms or other connected topics. The workshops “Creating…
EFJ Director Renate Schroeder will be one of the speakers of the first of seven sessions of a lecture series on disinformation, co-organised by DG COMMUNICATION and DG CONNECT (CONNECT University and the Unit of Paolo Cesarini). It aims to inform about the latest digital trends and challenges which are highly linked with EU's relevant policies and serve as a platform for sharing knowledge through thematic discussions, workshops and seminars. The lecture series will be webstreamed and will be publicly accessible. This first session should present the main issues and the state of art of the expert debates on disinformation.…
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) with the support of the three Italian Trade Union Confederations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, is organising the Final Conference of the “REBALANCE” project – Trade unions’ and social partners’ actions to improve reconciliation of work, family and private life for women and men”. The objectives of this Conference are to disseminate and promote the final results of the study on social partners’ practices tackling work-life balance issues in collective bargaining, as well as to launch the transposition guide of the Directive. It will also aim at raising awareness on the better use of collective…
The Education Department of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) will organise with EFJ a second workshop on ‘Trade Union Leadership Training II’ which will be held from 28 to 30 October 2019 in Porto, Portugal. Aims: To equip future leaders with leadership and trade union mobilising skills; To provide networking opportunities for future leaders to exchange among themselves; To find innovative and inclusive ways to mobilise and organise members Participants Participants are future leaders or key person making decisions and leading change in the organisation in the next five years.