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The EU must prioritise media freedom and human rights in Türkiye

09/07/2024

Call on the new European Commission and the new European Parliament to strengthen their commitment in their relations with Türkiye

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Albania: freedom of the press crushed by the weight of politics

01/07/2024

Almost non-existent professional ethics, capture of the media by politics and financial unsustainability are just some of the main issues that make the Albanian media landscape particularly alarming. An interview

By Luisa Chiodi

Originally published on OBCT , also available in ITA

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Kosovo: Dangerous attack by MP Dimal Basha on ECPMF’S Senior legal advisor Flutura Kusari

01/07/2024

The Media Freedom Rapid Response Partners (MFRR) strongly condemn Lëvizja Vetëvendosje MP Dimal Basha’s abusive speech against ECPMF Senior legal advisor Flutura Kusari during a speech in the Kosovo parliament. Kusari, found herself singled out in a personal attack aimed at silencing the prominent activist, and resulting in a wave of online abuse and sex-based insults

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Media Freedom Mission to Romania questions fairness of electoral coverage

27/06/2024

Urgent reform of political funding for ‘press and propaganda’ needed to end media dependency on political parties

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Italy: MFRR open letter to the President of the European Parliament and the President of the European Commission

25/06/2024

MFRR partner organisations sent a letter to President Metsola and President von der Leyen to express serious concerns about the declining media freedom in Italy and bring to their attention the findings of the recent advocacy mission to Rome

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Solidarity with the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation in their quest for justice

25/06/2024

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) coalition partners stand firm in solidarity with the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, which has unwaveringly campaigned against the continued impunity for the 1999 murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija. New legal action brought by two of the individuals acquitted of Ćuruvija’s murder now threatens to undermine the foundation’s campaign for justice

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Lithuania: Joint letter from mediafreedom organisations

25/06/2024

Draft amendment to Lithuanian law on national radio and television threatens public broadcaster’s funding model

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Who ordered Greek journalist’s murder?

25/06/2024

Karaivaz suspected hitmen’s trial to start amid quest for instigators

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Serbia: KRIK journalists facing SLAPPs after publishing the profile of Judge Dušanka Đorđević in database

18/06/2024

The lawsuits followed KRIK’s publication of Judge Dušanka Đorđević and her husband's profile on the “Judge Who Judges” database on 24 January 2024.

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Serbia: media independence is an exception rather than the rule

14/06/2024

Increasing political and financial pressure threatens the independence and editorial autonomy of many media outlets in Serbia. We interviewed Irina Milutinović, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade and co-author of the Country Report on Serbia of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2023

By Serena Epis

Originally published on OBCT , also available in ITA

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