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The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL) and the European Writers’ Council (EWC) in expressing strong opposition to the third Draft of...

Media freedom should be a pillar of democracy, yet it is under siege in Serbia.   Following last weekend’s historic protests, the Serbian government has intensified its crackdown on independent...

The editorial board of the Serbian state TV (RTS) said on Friday that its staff are under enormous pressure from the protests which, a statement said, showed the importance of...

PACE’s Rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), have today made the following statement concerning the massive protest in Belgrade of 15...

At a time when the Turkish authorities have unleashed a new wave of repression, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and its Turkish affiliates TGS, GCD and DİSK Basın-İş are...

At today’s meeting between the trade unions, representatives of media associations, and the management of Radio-Television of Vojvodina (RTV), an agreement was reached for RTV’s management to initiate several key...

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in a recent speech, compared critics including journalists to insects that will be eliminated. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its affiliates in Hungary, HPU...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins the undersigned NGOs and journalism organisations in reaffirming our support for press freedom and a free media that is able to operate without...

News reporting on the nightclub fire in Kočani, in the eastern part of North Macedonia, which claimed the lives of at least 59 people on 16 March, must be in...

The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international treaty aiming to protect the profession of lawyer. This is to respond to increasing reports of attacks on the practice of...

EFJ President Maja Sever was invited to the Coordination meeting on combatting anti-Muslim hatred/racism organised by the European Commission in Brussels on 14 March 2025. Journalists, researchers and associations working...

A number of local and international media freedom and journalists’ organizations reacted to the attempt to blockade N1 by activists of the Serbian ruling coalition’s junior member party – Deputy...