03 November 2025 Statements Impunity Day: MFRR renews urgent call for justice for murdered journalists around EuropeTo mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on November 2, the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) honours the memory of those who have lost their…
29 October 2025 Statements Meloni’s Italy puts media freedom under pressure, regardless of EU rulesThis article is part of a series published by IPI and written by expert guest contributors from across Europe on different threats facing media freedom and independent journalism. The views…
28 October 2025 Statements Media freedom, a prerequisite for EU enlargementTo advance in their European integration path, Western Balkan candidate countries must ensure media freedom and pluralism. For Montenegro and North Macedonia, this means moving beyond formal commitments and proving…
22 October 2025 Statements Turkey: Journalists reporting LGBTQ+ issues risk criminalisation: Withdraw the proposed law!As press and freedom of expression organisations undersigned below, we call for the removal of the reported anti-LGBTQ+ provision from the 11th Judicial Package which would restrict and possibly criminalise…
17 October 2025 Statements Italy: Car bomb attack on investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci rings alarm for media freedom in the countryThe undersigned journalists and media freedom organisations strongly condemn the car bomb attack on one of Italy’s leading investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci and his family. We welcome the opening of…
15 October 2025 Statements In Memory of Daphne: Media reform public consultations must lead to National Action PlanOn the eve of the anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, press freedom and journalists’ groups are calling on the national authorities to set up…
14 October 2025 Statements IPI denounces fatal attack on journalist Hakan Tosun, urges swift and transparent investigationThe International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the fatal attack on journalist and environmental activist Hakan Tosun and calls on authorities to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation to bring…
13 October 2025 Statements Call on President von der Leyen to address media freedom crisis in the Western BalkansAgainst the backdrop of a rapidly worsening media freedom crisis across the region, most prominently in Serbia, a coalition of international media freedom, journalists’ and freedom of expression organisations calls…
10 October 2025 Statements Georgia: As ruling party intensifies crackdown, media freedom groups demand urgent action to safeguard independent journalismThe undersigned media freedom, journalists’, and freedom of expression organisations strongly condemn the intensifying crackdown on Georgian journalists and press freedom defenders who continue to face institutional repression and physical…
10 October 2025 Statements Press Freedom at Risk: The Democratic Cost of the EU’s “Chat Control” ProposalThe European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) – on behalf of the MFRR – is alarmed by the draft of the EU Commission’s CSA Regulation, so-called “Chat Control”.…
09 October 2025 Statements Bulgaria wants to criminalise alleged privacy violationsOn 8 October 2025, Bulgaria’s parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee urgently approved, at first reading, amendments to the Criminal Code introduced by the “There Is Such a People” (ITN) party. The…
26 September 2025 Statements MFRR condemns police interference with journalistic work in Germany and calls for protection of all journalistsSince the beginning of September 2025, Mapping Media Freedom (MapMF) has registered two cases of unlawful police conduct against journalists at pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Ahead of demonstrations “All Together for Gaza”,…
