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This video celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus program. It brings together memories of Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative for Foreign
The post Erasmus+ generation: Federica Mogherini and Pierpaolo Crivellaro appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
by Ingo Beckendorf
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the public service broadcaster in the United Kingdom, has won a libel lawsuit against an imam from London.
The imam, who is the leader of an Islamic Center in the urban district of Lewisham in London, brought a libel action against the BBC due to comments made by a BBC reporter during a live interview in 2013. The BBC's Sunday Politics programme included a feature on whether mosques were doing enough to counter extremism, including an interview between a BBC reporter and the imam.
During the disputed interview, the BBC reporter made the following…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Rules around data collection are undergoing reform in the UK with the Digital Economy Bill and the EU General Data Protection Regulation, due to become law in May 2018. Here Joanna Adler, Professor of Forensic Psychology and Director of Forensic Psychological Services at Middlesex University, writes about the growing ‘internet of things’ and implications for privacy and media literacy, particularly […]
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Media Policy Project
By Henrik Kaufholz, Chair of the ECPMF
The citizens of Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Albania have better access to public information than Germans, Danes and Austrians.
Rodoljub Sabic (photo:privat)
This is the result of a benchmarking study on freedom of information laws (FoIA) in 95 countries done by the Centre for Law and Democracy in Canada. No country gets the maximum of 150 points, but in the top ten you will find Serbia with 135, Slovenia with 129, Albania with 127 and Croatia with 126. Austria and Germany are both in the bottom ten with 32 and 54 points respectively.
The Nordic countries…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Citizens in several Balkan countries have better access to public information than Germans, Danes and Austrians.
The new Danish government has promised to improve the law about access to public information. There is certainly room for improvement, as Denmark in an international benchmarking is far behind the leading countries. According to an analysis from the Canadian Centre for Law and Democracy we find Serbia, Slovenia, Albania and Croatia in the top ten, whereas both Austria and Germany is in the bottom ten of the 95 countries where you have a law on access to public information.
The Chair of ECPMF, the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ana Ribeiro
After restricting a German comedian’s freedom of speech over a satirical poem on President Erdoğan, the Turkish state's hand has reached even more firmly into the EU against the media - with the arrest of a Kurd in Belgium.
The oppressive Turkish state once again gets its way against the media in Europe, targeting a Kurdish journalist, who is now out on bail after a stint in a Belgian prison. Photo: public domain
Maxime Azadi, who runs the Kurdish news agency ANF in the Netherlands, was stopped and arrested while passing through Belgium and then released on bail in…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
After a journalist involved in the campaign against BIRN in Kosovo in 2009 said the ruling party had been behind the whole affair, the party has hit back calling the claim 'a fairytale'
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The weekly "NIN" was fined "for damaging the reputation of Serbia's Minister of Interiors". A sentence that, warns CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks, could have negative impact on media freedom in the country
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The journalist Gaetano Pragliola of TeleclubItalia denounced two men. Forced to stop the filming. Solidarity from SUGC and the Mayor On December 27, 2016, in Sant’Antimo (in the province of Naples), the journalist Gaetano Pragiola, collaborator of the broadcaster TeleclubItalia, was threatened with death by two men while filming with his cell phone to document
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
This is the end-of-year balance of the Observatory. Although in order to understand the full dimension of the phenomenon, this number needs to be multiplied by 20 to be closer to reality There have been 412 Italian journalists and bloggers that during 2016 faced acts of intimidation, threats and serious abuses in retaliation for their
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
