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The passing of a law by the President of Poland which will establish stronger safeguards against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) is a long-awaited victory for media freedom which will provide important legal protections for public interest journalism, the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) said today.
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ECPMF joins the undersigned organisations, in expressing our serious concern regarding the Czech government's announced intention, as described in public statements on 15 June 2026, to replace the existing licence fee funding model for Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo) with direct state budget financing from January 2027.
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From 9 to 11 June 2026, Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) conducted a mission to France to assess the current state of media freedom in the country. This statement presents the mission’s preliminary findings.
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The undersigned organisations express concern over the public targeting and ethnic delegitimisation of Kristina Voko, the Executive Director of Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Albania (BIRN Albania), by Ardit Bino, a member of Parliament for the Socialist Party, currently in government.
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The ECPMF and the undersigned media organisations have written an open letter to Lithuanian authorities calling on them to ensure all outstanding recommendations of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission on the Law on Lithuanian National Radio and Television are addressed.
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