Press Freedom

London / Vienna. December 10, 2021 by Edward Steen As a long-ago troublemaker (diarist) at the FT, it is good to see that my young successors...

Ankara / Vienna, December 8, 2021 by Edward Steen If not now, then when? The insufferable behaviour of President Tayyip Erdoğan, would-be sultan of Turkey, has...

Kabul, November 10, 2021 To the Human Rights Advocates and Media Supporters! from Mohammad Kabir Shafaq, Journalist Fate has cruelly played with my destiny and that of my generation’s; I have...

Will UK's judicial "bespoke sewer" be reformed at last? London/ Vienna. November 24, 2021 by William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative Nineteen organisations including the AEJ have expressed...

(es) Brussels, November 23, 2021 This is the text of Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová's message to the AEJ's general assembly last night. Her brief is...

Vienna, November 23, 2021 (NEW Reporting against all the odds in Belarus and fear of Putin re-invading Ukraine in December, 26/11/21, BBC report 29/11/21...

Mark Porter interviews the Vice President of the European Commission A Brussels insider described the internal turf war over fake news as "The Game of...

Vienna, November 20, 2021 (updated 21/11/2021) by Edward Steen President Lukashenko's weaponisation of refugees desperate to reach the EU via Belarus' border with Poland is an...

...but still busy messing with people's heads Vienna/ Berlin. November 18, 2021 By Edward Steen and Tibor Macak The new rock-star of whistleblowing, Frances Haugen, has now...

Washington, November 17, 2021 by Askold Krushelnycky Russia’s recent mass troop movements around Ukraine have raised fears that Moscow could be poised to invade Ukraine again...