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.
 

Resources

MFRR Monitoring Report 2023

The partners from the MFRR consortium publish the latest edition of its Monitoring Report which documents press freedom violations from January to December 2023

Multimedia

Safeguarding Media Independence in Italy: RAI, and the EMFA
SLAPP in Italy: Testimonies from Those Targeted by Legal Harassment

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

Council of Europe Platform partners and other partners to conduct fact-finding mission on media freedom in Kosovo
Italy: MFRR flags ongoing media freedom erosion
Women’s Day: Gender-based violence, a growing weapon against women journalists
North Macedonia: Appeal court ruling on Investigative Reporting Lab a worrying setback for media freedom
Media freedom monitoring report 2025

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