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The youth organisation of the smaller governing party in Hungary must apologise to Menedék, the Hungarian Association for Migrants, at a press conference after the NGOs reputation was damaged by comments the party's spokesperson made via state media.
Hungarian authorities continue to silence dissent and run intimidation campaigns against individuals and organisations in almost every area of life that want to hold the government accountable.
Germany's foreign minister has spoken out against Turkey's decision to remove the accreditation of three German journalists. Heiko Maas called the decision "unacceptable" and said he would campaign against it. The...
German police have arrested a man for the rape and murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova. Mladen Marinov, the Bugarian Interior Minister, said the suspect's DNA matched evidence recovered from the crime...
The European Commission should play a bigger role in opposing governments' attempts to limit media freedom and pluralism, according to a resolution passed by the European Parliament with overwhelming majority. The...
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Hungarian daily paper Magyar Nemzet and Budapest-based FM Lánchíd Rádió have closed down after 80 years on the media market. Both are owned by Lajos Simicska, an ex-ally of Viktor Orbán. He claims the lack of...
The Polish government has accepted more than 140 of the 180 recommendations it was given on rule of law, anti-discrimination and freedom of speech.
The authoritarian past resonated again in Hungary after a pro-government news site 888.hu published an article listing '12 journalist who are George Soros’s propagandists'. The Association Of Hungarian Journalists...
MPs belonging to the Farmers and Greens Union proposed legally obliging the Lithuanian media to publish "positive" and "negative" information in equal parts.
A group of influential British MPs on the Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee will investigate the threat to democracy from fake news. They aim to find an industry-standard definition of fake news and...
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