Achtung! Press freedom on the agenda as Germany leads OSCE
by Katharina Mikulčak
It is Germany's turn to chair the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2016 and its mandate includes press and media freedom. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a strong speech in Berlin.
Frank Walter Steinmeier. Picture by Armin Kübelbeck via Wikimedia commons.
He stressed freedom of expression is a core value of democracy, and even more important nowadays in the background of terrorism.
Germany just lost more than 10 citizens who were killed in a bomb attack in Istanbul, Turkey, this week. Steinmeier took the chance to combine his speech on the OSCE chairmanship with this sad…
