Brussels 12.11.2025 Messages of solidarity are multiplying in Europe in support of the journalist Gabriele Nunziati, fired by the Nova news agency for a question described by the newspaper’s boss as “technically wrong.” Nunziati had asked EU Commission chief spokeswoman Paula Pinho (pictured) whether, while she demanded Russia to fund the reconstruction of Ukraine, it…
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Dublin: TV correspondents attacked by police
Brussels 22.10.2025 The GB TV correspondent in Dublin reported the police attack on him, and his crew, while he was attepting to fulfill his professional mission. The incident took place amid the civil unrest in the Irish capital. The GB News Northern Ireland Correspondent Dougie Beattie reports that their media crew has been ‘pepper-sprayed, smashed…
EU-DSA: Petition against censorship
Date: 9 October 2025 Urgent Call for a Robust and Transparent Review of the Digital Services Act (DSA), Including Reviewing Protections for Free Expression. “We write amid global instability—marked by conflict, inequality, and accelerating digitalisation. Particularly in such times, the ability of citizens to freely express their views, question prevailing narratives, and engage in open…
Brussels: MCC think-tank under attack
Brussels, 21st May 2025 – “Freedom of speech is under direct assault in the heart of the European Union. A radical group known as Brussels Antifa-intolerant and aggressive-has launched an orchestrated campaign to shut down a civil discussion tonight on Women and Conservatism, organised by MCC Brussels. Their objective is not debate, but intimidation: they…
Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism
Strasbourg 04.04.2022 Observing the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the European Parliament officially launched the call for submissions for entries to the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism. Today – on World Press Freedom Day – the European Parliament officially launches the call for submissions for entries to the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize…
EU: Belarus Ambassador summoned
Brussels 24.05.2021 Upon request by High Representative Josep Borrell, the Secretary-General of the European External Action Service, Stefano Sannino, summoned the Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the European Union, Aleksandr Mikhnevich, to condemn the inadmissible step of the Belarusian authorities, who forced a civilian plane to perform an emergency landing in Minsk and…
Malta: MEPs monitor investigation
Brussels 29.04.2021 In a resolution adopted on Thursday, April 29, with 635 votes for, 46 against and 12 abstentions, the European Parliament takes stock of developments in the case of Daphne Caruana Galizia and other related investigations, following the testimony of convicted criminal Vincent Muscat. Press releaseRule of law in Malta: Parliament calls for justice…
Russia: Latvia Meduza news ‘Foreign Agent’
Brussels 26.04.2021 Russia has announced the independent news website Meduza a “foreign agent,” the Justice Ministry confirmed on 23 April amid what critics call the Kremlin’s continuing crackdown on freedom of speech. A statement on the ministry’s website said the decision, which also includes the Moscow-based Pasmi (“First Anti-Corruption Media”) news site, was made “in…
Russia: G7 condemn Navalny detention
“We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in condemning the politically motivated arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny’ reads the G7 Foreign Ministers’ statement on arrest and detention of the Russian opposition…
EP: Homage to Samuel Paty
President of the European Parliament David Sassoli led a minute of silence to pay tribute to murdered teacher Samuel Paty and all victims of terrorism, at the opening of the session. Expressing his condolences to the family of Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher brutally murdered by an Islamist terrorist in France on Friday,…
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