[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6440" img_size="large" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"][vc_column_text] If there are two things that Europe does well, it’s cheesy pop music… and SLAPPs. Across Europe, the rich and powerful are increasingly turning to abusive lawsuits - al

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] URGENT Open Letter sent electronically Mr. Ivan Malenica Minister of Justice Ulica grada Vukovara 49 Maksimirska 63 10 000 Zagreb Republic of Croatia Tuesday 18 May 2021 Dear Minister, Jonathan Taylor is

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the arrest of journalist Raman Pratasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega in Belarus, after their flight from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land in Mins

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] NGOs and journalists’ organisations call for the dropping of a lawsuit launched against the academic Prof Yaman Akdeniz by Serhat Albayrak, seeking 100,000 Turkish lira ( € 9,600) in damages for his tweets about the censorship of reports into the crimi

€1.1 million for projects in Europe in 2021, plus a new scheme for freelancers

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) is deeply concerned by the lawsuit targeted at a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Network for Investigation of Crime and Corruption (KRIK) by the director

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] June 7, 2021 A legal case currently before the UK courts highlights the egregious tactics being used by Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Limited ( ENRC ), a privately-owned Kazakh multinational mining company, in what appear to be deliberate atte

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="5941" img_size="medium" alignment="right"][vc_column_text] Dear, Stefan Yanev, Prime Minister Boyko Rashkov, Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Velislav Minekov, Minister of Culture cc. Diana Kovacheva, head of the Ombudsman of the R

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] 9 June 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) are dismayed by Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša’s disparaging tweet about Council of Europe Commi

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] 11 June 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] To: Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, Gramoz Ruçi CC: European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi Council of Europe Commissi