In the beginning there was a woman. To be more precise, there were two women, classmates from school. One was Klára, the partner of lawyer Daniel Křetínský; the other was Iva, the wife of one of the co-owners of the financial group J&T, Dušan Palcr. It was through them that Křetínský and Palcr met and […]

On a Wednesday morning in November 2018, Hungarian lawyer József Tamás Kertész was hard at work, emailing away. Before noon, Kertész, of the firm Kertész & Partners, had filed eight sets of documents at various Hungarian company courts. These bundles attested that the owners of eight different companies involved in the media sector had decided […]

The IPI global network condemns the Burkina Faso government’s suspension of three foreign broadcasters for covering a report on alleged military killings of civilians. Authorities also blocked access to the websites of several news outlets. IPI calls on Burkina Faso’s transitional government to reverse the bans and allow journalists to do their jobs. Burkina Faso’s […]

Over the past five years, Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, has been leading the Commission’s efforts to strengthen media freedom under its Democracy Action Plan. This has resulted in an unprecedented array of legislative initiatives through the completion of the European Media Freedom Act, the Anti-SLAPP Directive, the issuing […]