The International Press Institute (IPI) joined partners of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Safety of Journalists in launching its annual Europe press freedom report: ‘On the Tipping Point: Press Freedom 2025’.
The new report was written jointly by the partner organisations of the Platform, which is a coalition of fifteen press freedom NGOs and journalists’ associations, including IPI. It analyses key legal, policy and practical developments affecting media freedom and journalist safety in Europe and identifies actions required to strengthen effective protection.
Click here to download the report
To mark the launch of the report, the Platform partners held a press conference in Brussels to present their main findings and recommendations and discuss selected country situations highlighted in the report with invited guests. The event was also streamed and is available here.
The Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists was set up by the Council of Europe in 2015, in co-operation with prominent international NGOs active in the field of the freedom of expression and associations of journalists, to provide information which may serve as a basis for dialogue with member states about possible protective or remedial action.
The 15 partners are the European Federation of Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, the Association of European Journalists, ARTICLE 19, Reporters without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Index on Censorship, the International Press Institute, the International News Safety Institute, Rory Peck Trust, the European Broadcasting Union, PEN International, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Free Press Unlimited and the Justice for Journalists Foundation.