Read in English Die Partnerorganisationen der Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) äußern heute ernsthafte Besorgnis über die Entscheidung des von Fidesz kontrollierten Medienrats – der mächtigen Medienregulierungsbehörde des Landes –, die Verlängerung der Frequenzlizenz des unabhängigen Senders Tilos Rádió zu blockieren. Unsere Organisationen sind besorgt, dass diese Entscheidung ein weiterer unverhältnismäßiger Schritt des Medienrats zu […]

The partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today express serious concern over the decision by the Fidesz-controlled Media Council – the country’s powerful media regulator – to block the frequency license renewal of the symbolic independent station Tilos Rádió. Our organisations are concerned that this decision appears to be yet another disproportionate […]

Editor’s note: This op/ed is being jointly published by IPI and a network of independent media outlets in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to mark World Press Freedom Day 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown us how far the dissolution of democratic institutions and the suffocation of the free […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins the partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists in publishing the 2022 annual report, which identifies growing challenges for media freedom across the region. While European countries still pack the first ranks in press freedom indexes, the […]