France: Critical juncture for media freedom ahead of 2027 elections

Growing concentration of media ownership, abusive legal proceedings, and threats to journalists’ safety call for urgent action

Georgia: Arrest of police officer accused of attacking journalist undermined by widespread impunity

Arrest shines a spotlight on the wider climate of impunity for violent attacks on the press

Serbia: IPI joins call to EU Ministers on red line for media freedom backsliding

Joint letter to Ministers across Europe urges tough line on EU funding over press freedom backsliding

As deadline passes, MFRR renews call for urgent transposition of EU Anti SLAPP Directive

European Commission should be prepared to take swift infringement action where Member States fall short

Albania: Fresh concerns over journalist’s safety following suspected arson attack

IPI calls for motive of targeted destruction of journalists car to be swiftly established

World Press Freedom Day: Six years of monitoring reveals emerging threats against media freedom in Europe

IPI and MFRR partners publish analysis of six years of press freedom data

Analysis: Tisza’s victory offers historic opportunity for media freedom reform in Hungary

IPI op-ed: While Tisza’s landslide election victory offers opportunity to rejuvenate press freedom, unwinding Fidesz’s media capture model will be complex, but essential for achieving wider democratic reform

Czech Republic: Public media funding bill raises concerns over compatibility with EMFA

Proposed changes represent crucial test of the EMFA’s safeguards for public service media independence

Hungary: Media freedom reform must be priority for incoming Tisza government

IPI and MFRR partners call for establishment of expert working group on media reform

Hungary: IPI outlines 10 media freedom reform priorities

Election outcome offers opportunity for major reset of media freedom and democracy in Hungary

Serbia: Total impunity entrenched 27 years after killing of editor Slavko Ćuruvija

IPI and international media freedom partners lament engrained impunity following recent mission to Belgrade

Greece: Five years without justice for killing of crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz

Case is only killing of journalist in EU in last decade to make no concrete progress in securing justice

Georgia: Afgan Sadygov’s deportation represents a stark example of transnational repression, demands urgent international response

Sadygov’s deportation is a stark example of transnational repression against journalists in Europe

Slovakia: Bill on media regulatory restructuring and public media layoffs a crucial test for EMFA

New developments represent crucial test of the EU’s new regulatory framework for media

Serbia: Authorities must stop the spiral of violence against journalists

IPI and media freedom partners publish preliminary findings following mission to Belgrade

Hungary: IPI condemns criminal charges filed against journalist Szabolcs Panyi

Government must cease harassment of the press and respect democratic process as election nears

Czech Republic: IPI advocacy mission to Prague raises alarm over looming media freedom threats

Czech authorities must comply with EMFA and uphold press freedom

Serbia: Media freedom mission to probe longstanding challenges and advocate for reform

IPI to participate in two-day mission to Belgrade

Hungary: Journalists covering campaign events face obstruction ahead of election

IPI calls for journalists to be allowed to report freely ahead of April vote

Italy: Media freedom continues to erode amidst multiple challenges

IPI and MFRR partners share preliminary findings following two-day visit to Rome