New European friends thanks to suffering parrots
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by Anastasia Lopez
Vienna, May 11, 2021
I wasn't expecting my research into an unexpected new form of terrorism would become my ticket to Brussels. I'd...
Window on post-election Albania
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Black Cyber-Shadow over Edi Rama win
Tirana, May 10, 2021
by Arber Hitaj, AEJ Albania chairman and television presenter
The election triumph of our colourful artist-turned-Prime Minister,...
Europe Day – message from the President
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Athens, May 9, 2021
My dear Friends and Colleagues,
Apart from being my Nameday, and Mothers Day, this is also Europe Day! Every year, May 9...
“No democracy without free media”
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Former AEJ President Otmar Lahodynsky argues in an article for New Europe (Brussels) that there can be no democracy worth the name without free...
Serbia – beatings, harassment, and myth-making
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Serbia: media freedom and journalists in danger
Brussels, May 7, 2021
ARTICLE 19's Media Freedom Rapid Response has published a disturbing report on its...
News (and news suppression) of Media Freedom Day
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from William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative
London, May 6, 2021
The latest issue of Safety of Journalists Weekly (Council of Europe publication) lists the latest...
Democracies are islands
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Frankfurt, May 3, 2021
By Dieter Weirich*, the legendary journalist and politician who from 1989 onwards transformed Deutsche Welle into the global influence it is...
Jourová to take on Orbán over media concentration
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es Vienna/ Brussels, May 4, 2021
European Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová yesterday called for new EU rules about media concentration. In an interview in Brussels...
Covid death of great champion of Africa
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The legendary editor and entrepreneur Béchir Ben Yahmed died from Covid yesterday at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris. He was 93. Until hospitalised at the...
Murdered journalists not forgotten
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Madrid, May 3, 2021
In a graphic broadcast, Deutsche Welle today paid tribute to the courage of all the journalists who have paid with their...