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10 Sep

Media freedom groups welcome Google fine, call on EU to break up the tech giant’s digital advertising monopoly

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today calls on the European Union to step up its action against Google following the European Commission’s decision to impose a 2.95 billion euro fine on the company for anti-competitive practices through its dominance of the online advertising and advertising technology (adtech) services.

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9 Sep

Shelter City Leipzig officially launches: strengthening protection of international journalists and media workers in Saxony

We are happy to announce that the City of Leipzig, together with ECPMF, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Justice & Peace to establish Shelter City Leipzig and to launch a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the support of journalists at risk in Europe.

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8 Sep

Press freedom organisations, rights groups call for the release of journalist Furkan Karabay

The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the elongated pretrial detention of journalist Furkan Karabay, who faces a prison sentence of 6 to 15 years and call for his immediate release. Karabay has now spent 117 days in prison over his journalistic commentary.

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4 Sep

Serbia: MFRR partners warn against attempt to seize political control of last remaining independent TV stations N1 and Nova

The partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) express serious concern over the threat of political interference in the operations of the United Group's media outlets in Serbia, which owns the major independent television news channels that are active in Serbia, N1 and Nova TV.

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4 Sep

Turkey: MFRR partners condemn Turkey’s broadcast regulator’s decision to silence TELE1

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners condemn the five-day broadcast blackout imposed on TELE1 since September 1, and the escalating use of censorship sanctions by RTÜK, Turkey’s broadcast regulator, against independent critical media outlets. We urge authorities to stop targeting critical and opposing views and uphold media pluralism in line with democratic standards.

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4 Sep

Ten demands for maintaining media freedom in Czechia

Media freedom is the cornerstone of every democratic society. Independent journalism, together with media literacy and free access to information, is the best prevention against disinformation. In the run-up to the Czech parliamentary elections on 3 and 4 October 2025, the undersigned organisations therefore propose to political parties specific steps to protect these values. .

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2 Sep

Launch of the European Anti-SLAPP Monitor

The Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) are proud to announce the launch of the European Anti-SLAPP Monitor, a new online platform designed to track the transposition and implementation of European standards on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) at the national level.

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2 Sep

Open Letter to President von der Leyen on defending digital sovereignty

ECPMF joined more than 40 leading European and international civil society organisations, media freedom groups, and democracy advocates, as well as academics, journalists, and public figures from across the continent penned a letter to the President of the European Commission to resist US coercion and to defend Europe's sovereign right to regulate technology in the public interest.

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25 Aug

Albania: Media freedom groups write to authorities over Focus Media Group obstruction

The ECPMF joined media freedom and journalist organisations in sending an open letter to Albanian authorities to highlight growing concerns over the continued obstruction of journalistic activity related to the recent police blockade of building hosting Focus Media Group in Tirana and the non compliance with a recent court decision. Read the full letter in English and Albanian below.

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12 Aug

Albania: Urgent answers needed on Focus Media Group blockade and journalists’ right to work

We, the SafeJournalists Network, partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and Albanian media freedom organisations, express shared concern over the police blockade and subsequent events affecting Focus Media Group, News24, BalkanWeb, Panorama, Gazeta Shqiptare, and other affiliated outlets.

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