Whose extremists?
"Mob rule is replacing democratic rule" – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak."Islamists … have got control of London" – Lee Anderson, former Conservative party deputy chairman and, as of March 11, the only MP for the Reform Party.The Conservative […]
Press freedom in Europe: time to turn the tide
The AEJ joined 14 other partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Safety of Journalists on March 5 to urge action on spyware tools, visas, and journalists' safety. The call came with the launch of the […]
SLAPPs get slapped
The UK Parliament has backed a measure to tackle the use of SLAPPs – Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. This legal tactic has been widely used to intimidate journalists, academics, campaigners and ordinary people who want to expose wrongdoing […]
Julian Assange extradition
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appealed to the UK High Court on February 20 and 21 to contest his extradition to the United States. Two judges will review an earlier High Court decision which denied him permission to appeal and […]
The International Court of Justice orders Israel to prevent genocide
The International Court of Justice ordered Israel on 26 January to do all it can to prevent acts of genocide and to take immediate steps to ensure humanitarian assistance in its military offensive in Gaza.The United Nations' top court […]
The AEJ UK
The AEJ UK is part of a professional network of journalists and specialists active across Europe, independent of any institutional or political group and recognised by the Council of Europe, the OSCE and UNESCO. We connect the newsmakers who shape our political and economic world with journalists, broadcasters and writers on European affairs. Meetings are open to journalists, academics and Europe specialists […]
Putin’s war in Ukraine – and at home – March 20
The AEJ UK marks two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years since its annexation of Crimea.Currently the war in Ukraine seems to be going Putin’s way. But how secure is […]
Artificial intelligence and democracy: friend or foe?
Report by David Worsfold, AEJ-UK Treasurer, on an AEJ meeting with Professor Ciaran Martin at Regent's University on 21 February 2024 on the theme of 'Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: Friend or Foe?' Artificial intelligence […]
EU political prospects in a time of uncertainty – April 17
Helen Thompson is professor of political economy at the University of Cambridge and a leading thinker and commentator on the politics of the contest for energy resources and the history of the democratic, economic, […]
Media Freedom
The freedom and health of UK media – a point of view
From Charles Jenkins, AEJ UK Secretary(Originally written for the Il Giornale Europeo website – https://www.ilgiornaleeuropeo.it/ – edited by Giuseppe Jacobini, AEJ Italy in December 2022, […]
UN International Day to end impunity for crimes against journalists
The United Nations and associated organizations marked 2 November as the 2023 International Day to end impunity for crimes against journalists with events around the […]
AEJ joins renewed call for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia
The AEJ has joined 12 other media freedom groups to mark the sixth anniversary of the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta on […]
News
Marking Turkey’s centenary
The AEJ UK's Firdevs Robinson, former BBC World Service editor specialising in Turkey and the near east, examines the difference between modern Turkeys' two strongmen as Turkey celebrates its 100th anniversary. Has Turkey come full circle? […]
Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin – dead and buried?
Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is reported dead and buried.His Wagner mercenary group said he was buried on August 29. Russian authorities said genetic testing matched the names of all 10 people including Prigozhin who were on a private plane that crashed north of Moscow on August 23.Perhaps unsurprisingly, details of the reported death of Prigozhin are […]
Russian warlord investigation forces UK to tighten sanctions
The UK government has tightened its sanctions rules against Russia in the wake of revelations by openDemocracy that the UK Treasury gave sanctioned Russian warlord Yevgeny Prighozin – founder of the Russian mercenary group Wagner – permission to sue a British journalist.Exchequer Secretary James Cartlidge issued a written statement to Parliament changing the rules so that […]
Ukraine analysis
Russian journalism in exile
What's it like for journalists who have fled Russia since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022? And the many independent […]
Reporting the war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has turned Ukrainian journalists into war reporters.At a workshop of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Media Freedom hosted by the centre's […]
Ukraine eastern offensive historic?
One of Britain's pre-eminent military analysts says a rapid and surprise Ukraine advance in the northeastern Donbas region is historic.Ukraine in early September claimed to […]