by Marzia Bona
On October 24th, 2017, the European Parliament voted an important - although not binding - report on the need for a EU framework for the protection of whistleblowers. An overview of the process that led to the formulation and adoption of the document is published on the Media Freedom Resource Centre.
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The pressing need to grant legal protection to whistleblowers by adopting framework rules at the EU level gained momentum following recent scandals uncovered by whistleblowers. The most notable cases which brought the topic to public attention include the Lux Leaks affair involving tax avoidance schemes (2014), the so…