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CoE : abuse of media linked to “democratic backsliding”

  wh London/ Strasbourg, May 11, 2021 The Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, said today that increasing violence against journalists, including murders,...

Flashpoint Ukraine

Kyiv/ Washington May 10, 2021 Antony Blinken, the new US Secretary of State visited Ukraine last week, “a country struggling to defend itself from without...

Window on post-election Albania

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

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”

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

Skip to content 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

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

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

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

The legendary editor and entrepreneur Béchir Ben Yahmed died from Covid yesterday at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris. He was 93.  Until hospitalised at the...

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