Winners are set to be named at a ceremony in Brussels on June 23. Almost 50 organisations and individuals from across Central, Eastern, South-Eastern Europe and the Caucasus have been shortlisted for the fifth edition of the Future of Emerging...
Tag - Media Freedom
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán finds himself some rather unsavoury company on a new list of rogue leaders clamping down on press freedom. Hungarian Prime Minister...
US President Joe Biden’s chock-a-block European tour, the first foreign visit of his presidency, was meant to send a strong signal to democratic partners that the United...
Authorities in Belarus this week intensified their repression of independent media, shutting down the country’s largest news portal, TUT.by. The largest and most...
A new documentary is shedding light on the events that led to the disturbing murder in 2000 of Georgiy Gongadze, a prominent Georgian-Ukrainian reporter. It is also a...
A recent resolution from the European Parliament and a report by the US State Department have condemned the state of media freedom in Serbia, as well as raising the...
There has been a worrying fall in the level of trust that Serbian citizens have in the democratic process, and its ability to bring about change. Serbia’s...
A Polish law ostensibly aimed at curbing the power of major social networks to unilaterally remove content they see as problematic may not be what it at first seems. At...
Just days after a carefully staged-managed All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, convened as a show of support for the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus has...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Journalists are still being detained in Belarus, months after a rigged presidential election. Among the latest to have been arrested is Yulia Slutskaya, founder of the...
A free and independent press is a must for a free society, and perhaps that’s the biggest lesson to be learned in the post-Donald Trump world of fake news and...
