The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation, opened its annual World Congress on Saturday with a reception at the Hotel Savoyen, Vienna. The Congress, which will mark 60 years since the founding of the organisation, will see over 360 participants from 62 countries join the four-day programme.  Under the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced the inclusion of recently-elected Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radičová in its World Congress programme. Ms Radičová will be the first Slovak prime minister to attend an IPI World Congress, which, this year, will be held jointly in Vienna, Austria, and for the first time in Bratislava, Slovakia. Besides […]

The Supreme Court of Slovakia is suing a Slovakian radio station to the tune of €200,000 in a lawsuit alleging that the station falsely suggested that the Supreme Court had spent €32,700 on the refurbishment of the bathroom of the court’s president. If found guilty, the station may be ordered to pay damages to Supreme […]

The International Press Institute welcomes a Slovakian Constitutional Court ruling that the judiciary violated the rights of a Slovakian weekly magazine and failed to take into account the principle of freedom of expression when it directed the magazine to pay SKK 250,000 (EUR 8,300) to a judge for defamation of his character. The ruling of […]