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Europe News

Two men sentenced to life for links to murder of Maltese journalist

In her career, Daphne Caruana Galizia had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles in Malta, and her murder shocked Europe and triggered angry protests in the Mediterranean island country.

10 June 2025

Portugal

YouTube censors Portuguese extreme-right group over online hate

The Grupo 1143, which claims to be a Portuguese nationalist organisation, is led by Mario Machado, a neo-Nazi activist with anti-Islamic and anti-migrant beliefs.

15 August 2024

Culture news

Journalism summit celebrates life of investigative reporting hero

An event celebrating the best in investigative journalism is taking place today, in honour of the life of Sir Harry Evans, a journalist famous for uncovering the thalidomide scandal with the Sunday Times.

10 May 2023

Culture news

Pulitzer Prize winners include AP and Barbara Kingsolver

Since 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes honour the best in journalism and the arts.

9 May 2023

Europe

The lonely fight for press freedom of Greece’s small independent media

Greece ranked 108th out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders’ 2022 Press Freedom Index.

20 February 2023

Russia

Investigative journalist Christo Grozev added to Russian 'wanted list'

The Bellingcat journalist specialises in investigating Russian news.

29 December 2022

Culture news

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'She Said'

Released in time for the five years of the #MeToo movement and International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, She Said is the adaptation the 2019 nonfiction book by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.

25 November 2022

Culture news

Festival celebrates the life of Daphne Caruana Galizia

In 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in a car bomb in Malta. Five years later, a new festival celebrates the intrepid work female journalists do to speak truth to power.

3 October 2022

Russia

Russian journalist Ivan Safronov jailed for 22 years for treason

Human rights activists have slammed the trial as a sham and accuse Russia of trying "revenge" against Safronov.

5 September 2022

Malta

Daphne Caruana Galizia: Suspect confesses to Maltese journalist murder

George Degiorgio, one of three people accused of the 2017 assassination, has confessed to a reporter that they were paid to plant the car bomb that killed her.

5 July 2022

Europe News

EU proposes law to combat 'gag orders' on journalists and activists

Press freedom activists have welcomed the move as a "first step".

27 April 2022

Russia

Leading Russian independent newspaper shuts down amid media crackdown

Novaya Gazeta said they'd had two warnings from Russian press watchdog Roskomnadzor, which put their operating licence at risk.

28 March 2022

Norway

Norway condemns arrest of two journalists ahead of Qatar World Cup

Qatar’s government accused the NRK journalists of "trespassing on private property and filming without a permit" but Norway has criticised the arrests.

24 November 2021

World News

Euroviews. It’s time to make a commitment to protect the media | View

Four years after Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder, journalists in Europe are still under threat, writes Article 19's Europe division chief Sarah Clarke.

16 October 2021

Ukraine

Ukrainian state bank CEO resigns after assaulting journalists

The chairman of Ukreximbank was filmed assaulting two journalists during an interview at his office on Monday.

6 October 2021

Europe News

Report into the abuse of Rohingya women wins top EU media prize

This year's Lorenzo Natali Media Prize also recognised investigative reporting into the conditions of migrant workers in Spain and India's under-reported hunger crisis.

1 October 2021