Respected liberal periodicals failed to secure funding in this year’s grant awarded by Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, an important source of income for them in previous years. The allocation has prompted allegations of politicization by depriving publications that do not share the government’s worldview of public funds. The grant is one of […]

A Polish satire journalist has been indicted on a charge of “insulting the Polish nation” in a column. The column, published in weekly magazine Angora on December 17, 2017, satirized links between the Polish authorities and the Catholic Church. If he is deemed guilty, the columnist, Antoni Szpak, could face up to three years in […]

Read in English Der exekutionsartige Mord an dem slowakischen Journalisten Ján Kuciak und seiner Verlobten Martina Kušnírová schockierte die Slowakei, rüttelte die Politik des Landes auf und bewirkte den Rücktritt von Premierminister Robert Fico. Die von Kuciak hervorgebrachten Indizien, darunter posthum veröffentlichte Recherchen zu Verbindungen zwischen Vertrauensmännern Ficos und der italienischen Mafia, scheinen die vorherrschende […]

Zur deutschen Version The execution-style murders of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, shocked Slovakia, shook up the country’s politics and spurred the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico. While Kuciak’s work, including a posthumously published investigation into ties between Fico confidants and the Italian mafia, tapped into widespread animus over corruption, it […]