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Call for applicants for training course on (social) entrepreneurship

This deadline is extended. Apply now! Fyouture Italia organizes a Training Course, under the Erasmus Plus Programme, about entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.   The project will give the instruments to who has an intention to create an enterprise or to improve the skills to face the labor market.   The training course will take place […] The post Call for applicants for training course on (social) entrepreneurship appeared first on European Youth Press.

Source: European Youth Press

Mortegliano (Udine). Mayor sues for a title, juedge indicts 2

Paola Beltrame (Il Messeaggero Veneto) reported a local ANPI protest and the City Council’s reaction. A title seemed unbalanced. The hearing on 15 November 2017 On June 27, 2017, the journalist Paola Beltrame, a collaborator of the daily Il Messaggero Veneto, was indicted along with journalist Tommaso Cerno, from the Judge for the preliminary hearing

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Mortegliano (Udine). Mayor sues for a title, juedge indicts two

Paola Beltrame (Il Messaggero Veneto) reported a local ANPI protest and the City Council’s reaction. A title seemed unbalanced. The hearing on 15 November 2017 On June 27, 2017, the journalist Paola Beltrame, a collaborator of the daily Il Messaggero Veneto, was indicted along with journalist Tommaso Cerno, from the Judge for the preliminary hearing

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Women in jail. Many forced into illegality by male figures

by Francesca Vuotto – The project “Salviamo la Faccia” (Save the Face) by Ossigeno allows difficult stories to resurface: personal experiences and violence at least once suffered from men The project “Salviamo la Faccia” (“Save Our Face”), which began in March, will end in autumn with two theatrical performances, a spot and a short film

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Women in jail. Many forced into illegality by male figures

by Francesca Vuotto – The project “Salviamo la Faccia” (Save the Face) by Ossigeno allows difficult stories to resurface: personal experiences and violence at least once suffered from men The project “Salviamo la Faccia” (“Save Our Face”), which began in March, will end in autumn with two theatrical performances, a spot and a short film

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Campania. Facebook. Requests damages and receives insults

Salvatore Minieri had voiced doubts about articles about millions of euros for a fire in a storehouse of electrical appliances. Solidarity from ODG Campania The journalist Salvatore Minieri was insulted and threatened on Facebook for a post on a fire at a storehouse of a home appliance company, which occurred in Pastorano (in the province

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Confalonieri-L’Espresso. Even the Supreme Court sides with the weekly

The President of Mediaset accused journalists of having arbitrarily published investigative documents. The Court states that a short quotation is not a misdemeanour Twelve years ago, Fedele Confalonieri, current president of Mediaset, cited for defamation the publishing group L’Espresso and journalists Peter Gomez, Daniela Hamaui and Leonardo Sisti. Now the Supreme Court has ruled that

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

EU calls time on Poland's Rule of Law

By Jessica Jacques The deadline has passed on the European Commission’s final warning to Poland, in an effort to preserve the Rule of Law in the country. The clock is now ticking on whether the Commission will now trigger the so-called "nuclear option" – Article 7. The deadline has passed on the European Commission’s final warning to Poland, in an effort to preserve the Rule of Law there. In response the Polish government has called the European Commission’s concerns “groundless.“ In a statement, the Polish Foreign Ministry said that “the legislative process which has the primary goal of reforming the justice system is…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Georgia: German embassy should speed up visa process

(This article was first published in German on the website of Reporters Without Borders Germany) Reporters Without Borders and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) are appealing to the German embassy in Georgia not to slow down the process of granting visas for Azerbaijani journalists in exile who are being persecuted. The latest example is the case of the journalist Javid Abdullajev. The employee of the Berlin-based exile news portal Meydan TV has been trying since the beginning of July to get a visa to spend three months in Germany with his wife. Journalists who have fled Azerbaijan…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Wrap up - on the trail of media freedom in Europe - (English)

(Hier geht es zur deutschen Version) In July, Daniel Bouhs and Jörg Wagner have driven 7500 kilometres in their search for press freedom in Europe. Guided by the annual rankings published by Reporters Without Borders they chose their target destinations: Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary and Poland. These are their results. Daniel Bouhs and Jörg Wagner, two German reporters who went on a "press freedom safari" through the European countries Italy, Poland, Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria (Picture: NDR and RBB)   After four weeks on your research safari, what is the state of press freedom in the countries you visited? Daniel Bouhs: First we should sound…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)