Fearless reporter De Vries dies of head-wounds
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Amsterdam/ Vienna. July 15, 2021
by Edward Steen, AEJ Secretary-General
Just over a week after being shot in broad daylight as he emerged from an Amsterdam...
“Bad faith”: Google gets 500m Euro slap in face
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(es) London/ Vienna, July 14 2021
In a first halfway serious reverse for big tech, France has fined Google €500m for failing to negotiate “in...
Turkish journalist menaced in Berlin
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Ankara/ Berlin July 8, 2021
from Dogan Tilic, Ankara/ Berlin
Erk Acarer, a prominent exiled opposition columnist for the independent Turkish daily BirGün, was attacked by...
Lahodynsky (ENG) on Slovenia`s EU presidency
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Slovenia unveils plans for EU presidency
Vienna, July 2021
By Otmar Lahodynsky in the Wienerzeitung
Today, Slovenia takes over the rotating six-month presidency of the EU Council...
Attempted murder of crime investigator
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Vienna/ Brussels July 7, 2021
from Edward Steen, Secretary-General
In yet another outrage against investigative reporters, the internationally celebrated investigative journalist Peter R De Vries, 67,...
A false start and Johnson govt’s assault on truth
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London/ Vienna July 3, 2021
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
As if Brexit, a pandemic, and an economic crisis were not enough, UK media journalists now face...
Turkish journalists strike back over Kilic assault
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(dt/es) Ankara / Vienna June 29, 2021
Turkish journalists demonstrated in front of government offices over police violence against the prize-winning Kurdish AFP photojournalist Bülent...
Orban and the revolt against European liberalism
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(jm and es) London/ Brussels/ Vienna. June 30, 2021
A long-overdue article in the London Guardian of June 24, 2021 looks into the revolt against...
Austrian Section meets Spanish ambassador
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Vienna, June 23, 2021
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Pressefrühstück der spanischen Botschafterin Cristina Fraile
für die AEJ-Journalistinnen und...
After the Joe and Vlad show – what exactly?
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Vienna, June 25, 2021
from Edward Steen, S-G.
The Biden-Putin summit in Geneva 10 days ago was dismissed by the Russian president as "Hollywood". He was...