Focus on Media Freedom

The AEJ is an official Observer in the Council of Europe's Media Steering Committee.

The AEJ’s Media Freedom Representative, William Horsley, with other media and NGO organisations, has called on Member States to fulfil their 2009 pledge to ensure that national anti-terrorism laws are not misused to block legitimate freedom of expression.

The AEJ welcomes the focus on media freedom in the Decision by Ministers’ Deputies, but questions the failure to adopt more far-reaching measures to counter attacks on journalists’ lives and work.

» Full report on the AEJ-EP Seminar on Media Freedom in the EU
» AEJ Media Freedom Representative: Proposals for EU Action
» Council of Europe 2012 Decision on Media Freedom
» AEJ finds media freedom crumbling across eastern Europe

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» AEJ MF Surveys and Reports
» AEJ & the Council of Europe
» World Press Freedom Day

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Monday, May 21, 2012

AEJ Sections report about 2012 Press Freedom Day actions around Europe

The AEJ’s media freedom events focused in 2012, the AEJ’s 50th anniversary year, on a seminar in the European Parliament on Media Freedom in the EU member states. The seminar, chaired by AEJ President Eileen Dunne, was attended by EU commissioner Neelie Kroes as well as MEPs Anni Podimata, Renate Weber and Doris Pack. The well attended meeting was also addressed by the AEJs media freedom representative William Horsley and Jean-Paul Mathoz from the Committtee to protect Journalists. The seminar saw a strong turnout from the Belgian section, playing at home, which chose this event as its contribution to the WPFD drive.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

8 May 2012 - Successful EP/AEJ Seminar 'Media Freedom in the EU member states'

“I will always speak up for media freedom when it is under threat in EU member states and put political pressure on governments”, Neelie Kroes, the EU commissioner told a seminar organised by the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) on May 8 in the European parliament. But Ms Kroes admitted that the European Commission does not have sufficient competence to defend media freedom in the member states. “There is a wide gap between what the Commission can legally enforce and what we are often expected to do” she said.

AEJ President Eileen Dunne welcomes Commission’s VP Neelie Kroes

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Eupen (B) - April 20: 50 Year AEJ Belgium!

Invited by the Prime-Minister of the German Region of Belgium, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, the Belgian AEJ section celebrated its 50th anniversary, in Eupen, with the 4th Paul-Henri Spaak Lecture. Speakers were Dr Lambertz, Cécile Huylebroeck (director of European Movement Belgium) and Michel Theys (President of AEJ Belgium).

Monday, May 07, 2012

WPFD 2012: AEJ Bulgaria

On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, AEJ-Bulgaria aired its first original radio show, broadcast by the independent online radio “Zemlyanka”. The programme was wholly dedicated to hot topics from the Bulgarian and European media landscapes, and will continue on a weekly basis from now on.