Brussels / Gaza: International Federation of Journalists today launching the Palestinian Media Support Fund. Critical support needed for journalists on the ground. The Palestinian media community must be given the protection, space and means to survive.

Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Latvia are blocking EU action on Gaza. Our efforts as a press freedom community need to be with journalists and activists in these countries. We need full or partial suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

EU Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministers will discuss Gaza tomorrow in Copenhagen. They all know the horror that is taking place. The EU can have significant influence over Israel by partially or fully suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement. It must act. cpj.org/wp-content/u...

Serbia: disturbing report from OCCRP about the government allegedly seeking to silence an independent media outlet covering the protests. www.occrp.org/en/news/audi.... With constant threats and attacks against journalists, press freedom in Serbia is getting worse each week.

Press freedom activists now meeting in Brussels to denounce killings of journalists in Palestine and call for an end to impunity. Failure of the EU to stand up to Israel is a shameful stain on the bloc’s human rights record.

The Slovak Spectator reports on the Slovakia entry for the US State Department’s Country Report on Human Rights Practices. Now that the EU's European Media Freedom Act is in force, and the recess is over, does the European Commission have remedial action in mind? spectator.sme.sk/politics-and...

The Pfizergate, which directly concerns journalism as it is about news transparency and access to public interest information, is not going away www.ft.com/content/8162... @gpaccardo.bsky.social @at-tgibson.bsky.social @molenews1.bsky.social

CPJ and others have written to PM Mitsotakis about media reforms in Greece. cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-... The letter notes the persistence of serious concerns. The authorities now need to respond in a way which builds trust amongst everyone in the journalist community that real change will happen.

CPJ welcomes Tuesday’s order to release Atlanta-based Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, who was arrested while livestreaming a protest in an Atlanta suburb on June 14, from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, on bond. Read more⤵️ cpj.org/2025/07/atla...

🟥 The @europarl.europa.eu adopted a resolution condemning the detention of Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli (Batumelebi&Netgazeti co-founder) as politically motivated. It calls for her immediate release, denounces media crackdown in #Georgia & urges sanctions on those responsible. #FreeMzia

Join CPJ’s EU deputy advocacy director Tom Gibson for a panel, “Fighting spyware – Journalism, litigation and policy after the Pegasus Scandal,” about how collective action across journalism, civil society + legal actors can push back against spyware use. 🗓️6/18 | 2:30-4PM CET

Today’s letter by CPJ to Commission President von der Leyen and High Representative Kallas requesting the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in advance of the Foreign Affairs Council on June 23. The EU has leverage and it must uphold international law. cpj.org/2025/06/cpj-...

Gaza’s journalists are starved into silence. The EU’s neutrality is complicity. Writes CPJ's Sara Qudah: www.politico.eu/article/war-...

More than 120 global leaders of news and press freedom organizations call on world leaders, governments, and international institutions to act immediately to ensure journalists from outside Gaza are given immediate, independent access. cpj.org/2025/06/cpj-...

Journalists bare witness. CPJ feature: ‘Murder weapon’: Hunger ravages Gaza journalists under Israeli siege. cpj.org/2025/05/murd...

Journalism in Europe is in crisis. Disinformation is threatening our democratic processes. It is good that Brussels is intervening with the upcoming European Democracy Shield. But existing EU press freedom reforms need 1) political will from member states, and 2)financing. cpj.org/2025/05/eu-m...

A group of Jewish UK journalists have issued a call for Israel and Egypt to allow foreign media into Gaza. "To suggest that the safety of journalists cannot be guaranteed is not a reason to deny access. These risks are for them to manage" pressgazette.co.uk/news/robert-... @at-tgibson.bsky.social

Heart-breaking report on children in Gaza. Journalists should play a key role in bringing these stories to the outside world; yet international journalists are blocked from entering. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yesterday’s decision to review the EU-Israel Association Agreement is way too late. A review must now be carried out swiftly and EU member states must be ready to finally hold Israel to account for its unprecedented attack on press freedom and abuses of international law. cpj.org/2025/05/eu-d...

Editors, newsroom leaders protest against Hungary's soon to be adopted 'foreign agent' law, first of its kind imitating Russia legislation law in an EU country. 85 editors-in-chief and publishing executives from 22 countries: 444.hu/2025/05/20/k...

Keep your eyes on Hungary: Viktor Orban seems set on eliminating the independent media before next year's elections. EU leaders need to work out what to do with such autocracy in the heart of the EU. cpj.org/2025/05/hung...

The EPP should feel shame that Italian victims of spyware cannot be represented in the European Parliament. euobserver.com/rule-of-law/.... Victims should always be centre of the debate.

Brussels folks: Come to the CPJ event “Fast and Furious: The U.S. Crackdown on Press Freedom Amidst Global Autocracy” where we review the first 100 days of Trump and its global ramifications. Brussels Press Club 12:30. Lunch at midday for those who RSVP. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Press Freedom. European Commission must be ambitious on European Democracy Shield: cpj.org/2025/03/euro...

When is the EU going to say that enough is enough?https://apnews.com/article/hungary-orban-crackdown-media-ngo-38776560a2edf5948482dd4839461411

Thank you to Commissioner McGrath for providing the welcome address for the Council of Europe Journalist Safety Platform Annual Report. This support for press freedom is needed more than ever. audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/corporatepla...

Press freedom backsliding in Europe -what can be done? Join us at the Council of Europe Journalist Safety Platform annual report launch: tomorrow, Brussels, at 10:00 (CET). Online participation possible. fom.coe.int/en/pagesspec...

Council of Europe Journalist Safety Platform partners (including Committee to Protect Journalists) met CoE Secretary General @alain-berset.coe.int today. We discussed the need to maintain pressure on member states to avoid backsliding and measures to protect the press. Needed now more than ever.

When will the EU take action on X and Meta through the Digital Services Act? www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

The European Commission is seeking to strengthen its partnership with India, at a time when the government has been systematically weakening the country’s independent institutions and escalating a crackdown on press freedom. cpj.org/2025/02/cpj-... @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Make our asks your asks.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w... What double standards. Why can the European Commission not be as outspoken or decisive on Congo as it has been on Ukraine?

inforrm.org/2025/02/12/b... Good work by the Belgian anti-SLAPP working group who seeking to develop a model law on #SLAPPs that could serve as inspiration to other EU member states.

Meanwhile, our own European "little Trumps" don't remain inactive. And they of course bash the "unpatriotic" media. www.bbc.com/news/article... @at-tgibson.bsky.social @renateschroeder.bsky.social @councilofeu.bsky.social

Europe ‘must not be bullied’ by Trump and Musk on tech laws, NGOs say. Letter to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu urges European Commission not to weaken enforcement of #DSA and #DMA: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... cc @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social

The EU must be ready to fight increasing human rights violations, MEPs say: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres... I could not agree more. The EEAS @eudiplomacy.bsky.social has to step up on press freedom. We live in difficult times. We need effective leadership.

Today, it is the EU Foreign Affairs Council. At the Committee to Protect Journalists, we are calling for EU foreign ministers and leaders to push for media access and justice after the Gaza ceasefire. Otherwise they should suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement: cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-...

The Maltese State failed Daphne in life & is now failing her in death. Almost 8 years on, justice for her murder has not been delivered. The bomb that killed her was a warning: Malta's justice system is failing the victims of organised crime. #DaphneCaruanaGalizia

Council of Europe PACE should maintain suspension of #Azerbaijan, follow up on demands (including release of journalists), and SG Berset should start Article 52 Inquiry into escalating repression. cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-...

What will journalists be able to expect under #Trump? Subpoenas, communications seizures, whistleblower prosecutions, and legal threats. "It'll be brutal". www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...