The Resource Centre on Media Freedom in Europe (RC) is managed by OBC Transeuropa (OBCT) within the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), a consortium of six partners tracking, monitoring and reacting to violations of press and media freedom in EU Member States and Candidate Countries.

Our platform offers access to a collection of analysis and background material exploring media freedom and pluralism in Europe, and it also helps contextualise alerts issued on the Mapping Media Freedom.
 

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Italian civil society organisations take part in parliamentary consultations on defamation reform

Last month, the Italian anti-SLAPP working group submitted its written contribution to the Justice Commission of the Senate which had opened public consultations on a number of bills designed to amend defamation provisions of the Italian criminal and civil codes

Multimedia

Media, politics, and vexatious lawsuits - An Italian perspective
Surveying the landscape - Initiatives to counter spyware

Dossiers

New forms of abusive lawsuits and the (lacking) response of States to anti-SLAPP measures 

Our research on surveillance and its impact on the work of journalists all over Europe 

A collection of OBCT analyses focused on the Rule of Law Reports and their implementation

News

For a transnational anti-SLAPP network: countering gags on public participation
Cyprus: Call for thorough investigations into surveillance of Makarios Drousiotis
Greece: refugee reporting in times of surveillance
Surveillance: after Pegasus and Predator, the EU is (slowly) taking action
The International Press Institute (IPI) battling targeted cyberattacks

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