The Cube Greek journalists call for new 'fake news' law to be withdrawn A Greek journalists' union says the new legal amendment could endanger the right to press freedom and needs to be rewritten. 11/11/2021
Uncovering Europe Slovenia's EU presidency off to a rough start Slovenia has kicked off its six-month EU Council presidency, with Prime Minister Janez Janša already under fire for attacking judges and name-shaming journalists. 06/07/2021
View Hungary is becoming a semi-dictatorship as the EU watches idly | View "The EU has ignored the fact that within its borders a government is disregarding democratic values, leading the country towards populist-nationalist semi-dictatorship while they collect European taxpayers’ money." 10/05/2021
Europe News Brussels calls for a law to protect Europe's endangered journalists "There is nothing in our European rules recognising the special role of the media as one of the pillars of democracy." 03/05/2021
Hungary Let us into hospitals to show real COVID picture, says Hungary's media A government decree bans journalists from reporting inside hospitals or interviewing health care professionals. Journalists say this risks "exacerbating the epidemic". 01/04/2021
Uncovering Europe Legal bid seeks to stop Malta's political parties owning TV stations In a historic case that could change the face of the Maltese media, one independent news outlet is taking on the political establishment to restore impartiality to the airwaves. 25/01/2021
Uncovering Europe What does the MEP sex scandal tell us about Viktor Orban's Hungary? József Szájer, the most senior figure of Hungary's governing Fidesz party in Brussels, was caught by police attending what has been reported as a gay sex party in an apartment above a café in the Belgian capital on Friday evening. 03/12/2020
France Independent commission to examine France's controversial security law Article 24 of the proposed bill makes it illegal to share images of law enforcement officers for "malicious purposes". The proposed bill comes as "shocking" and "unbearable" images of police violence were released in recent days. 26/11/2020
Uncovering Europe Bulgarian national radio chief hits out against political interference He told Euronews he was disgruntled by the "lipservice" he said the government paid to enacting real change in a country that has been labelled "the black sheep of the European Union" by Reporters Without Borders. 17/11/2020
Uncovering Europe Daphne Caruana Galizia: The fight for truth continues three years on Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed when a bomb planted in her car detonated. The fight to uncover the truth behind her murder and closure for her family continues to shake Malta to its foundations. 16/10/2020
Europe News EU 'naive' over rule of law of breaches, says Jourova Vera Jourova was speaking as the EU published its first-ever report on democratic values in the 27-country bloc. 30/09/2020
View ‘Down with Satire!’ How our right to freedom of expression is being eroded ǀ View Freedom of expression - through satire, cartoons and so on - is being eroded by self-censorship. Despite it being a fundamental cornerstone of European culture, we are becoming afraid to be irreverent. 24/09/2020
The Cube Philippine lawmakers vote against renewal of top broadcaster ABS-CBN "This move solidifies the tyranny of President Rodrigo Duterte," Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said after the vote. 10/07/2020
Europe News 'There is definitely a clause' to scrap Orban's state of emergency The Hungarian emergency law would enable Prime Minister Viktor Orban to rule by decree. This happens in other countries, but critics say the Hungarian emergency law has no clear limitation in time - therefore a risk for the rule of law. 02/04/2020
The Cube Wikipedia restored in Turkey after being banned for over 2 years Wikipedia restored in Turkey after being banned for over 2 years | #TheCube 16/01/2020
Russia Not all journalists in Russia get the same support as Ivan Golunov Unprecedented solidarity helped Russia's journalists to a rare victory over the state when freelancer Ivan Golunov was released earlier this year. But such support is not afforded to all journalists in Russia, who face pressure and fabricated cases, too. 26/07/2019
Europe News European press freedom 'almost catastrophically bad' While Europe is ranked higher than in other regions when it comes to press freedom, rights groups say much more needs to be done. 06/05/2019
world news Press freedom in Europe at its 'most fragile' since Cold War: Report "Urgent actions" are needed to "improve the dire conditions for media freedom," the Council of Europe warned. 13/02/2019
Europe News Brief from Brussels: What came out of Strasbourg plenary? In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: our round-up from Strasbourg plenary session, where Dutch PM Mark Rutte presented his vision for Europe 13/06/2018
Europe News Brussels photo exhibition presses for free media Event is being held under banner of 'Building trust in media in South East Europe and Turkey' 13/06/2018
Europe News MEPs mark World Press Freedom Day MEPs have called for jailed journalists in Turkey to be freed. 03/05/2017
Unreported Europe The EU and Poland is the 'marriage' heading for the divorce courts Thousands of Polish women have protested against the politics of the populist right-wing government in Warsaw. 20/03/2017
Europe News EU's 'dirty deal' with Turkey is a 'betrayal' of European values, says Turkish journalist Can Dundar is the former editor-in-chief of Cumhumriyet, a newspaper that is staunchly critical of the Turkish government. 28/10/2016
Europe News Hungarian journalists protest over newspaper closure Protesters in Brussels have called for stronger protestions for media freedom in Hungary after the the biggest opposition newspaper The Hungarian government has denied any… 19/10/2016
Unreported Europe Determined youth of Poland use social media to battle right-wing shift Since the end of last year, Poland has been ruled by a populist right-wing government trying to get a hold of public media and the Constitutional Court. But student Artur Sierawski has something to sa 12/02/2016
Europe News EU probes Polish media law The EU is to investigate Poland’s new media laws, which have been branded as a clampdown on the freedom of the press. The country’s new conservative 13/01/2016
