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With a joint statement issued in Belgrade, the NGO of Rome and Vienna ask to implement the recent Council of Europe Recommendation and the UN Resolutions This is the text of the joint statement of “Oxygen NGOs for Information” and SEEMO Vienna on the protection of journalists and threatened the duty of government authorities to keep
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Journalists in Kosovo should not avoid the complex issue of transitional justice
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Crimea has had no independent media for two and a half years now - a Crimean journalist speaks out about the situation on condition of anonymity
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Censorship in Macedonia: the controversial case of Zoran Bozinovski, a journalist charged with criminal conspiracy, espionage and extortion, arrested in April 2016 and still in detention, while waiting for is trial to eventually start
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The European Press Prize will welcome entries for the 2017 edition from the 1st of November until the 16th of December.
The European Awards for Journalism will be given in four different categories. Each award will be for 10,000 euros, to be spent wherever possible on a personal project that may, in turn, enrich the practice of journalism. The judges are also empowered to award a special prize for particular excellence in editing or any other discipline, including reporting, feature write and advocacy. The winners’ work will be published on the website of the European Press Prize.
The Investigative Reporting AwardFor…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Albanian and Belarusian journalists win CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2016
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
250 years after the first transparency law in Europe adopted in Sweden in 1766, Europeans need access to information in practice, not just on paper. An editorial
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The initial reactions to the Ossigeno dossier on the effects of the legislation concerning libel For us, it was shocking to find out that the Italian journalists accused of libel undergo every year prison sentences totaling 103 years in prison. Italy is defintely not shining on this issue, that’s for sure. But it is better
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Ana Ribeiro
The ECPMF will support the case of French whistleblower Antoine Deltour with €1000, as he appeals his conviction by the Correctional Tribunal of Luxembourg. Deltour is one of three major figures who exposed irregular fiscal practices implicating Luxembourgish authorities, in what became known as LuxLeaks.
Antoine Deltour (photo: private)
Institutional support for the whistleblowers’ cause is growing. On 8 September, 108 Members of the European Parliament – active in pushing for the adoption of a directive to protect whistleblowers – signed an open letter strongly disapproving of the LuxLeaks convictions.
"The judgment was one of the most severe I could…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Attilio Bolzoni has described the climate in which it is taking place, in the Court of Ragusa, the trial against the person who wrote “i’ll snatch his head off” Attilio Bolzoni published on Friday, November 11, 2016, on the daily La Repubblica an account of the second day of the trial to the alleged mob
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
