Press freedom in Europe:confronting political pressure, disinformation and erosion of media independence
The AEJ joined 14 other partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Safety of Journalists on 5 March 2025 to urge the Council of Europe, the European Union, and their member states to address critical media […]
AP sues Trump officials in media freedom case
The Associated Press (AP) is taking three Trump officials to court in defence of its editorial independence, freedom of speech, and ability to gather and report the news.The AP is one of the world's three largest news agencies – […]
Killing the Messenger – INSI on the global death toll of journalists
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) notes a "staggering, almost incomprehensible" total of 81 – eighty one – deaths of journalists in Gaza in its annual report on media casualties around the world in 2024.That's well over half the […]
AEJ raises fresh alarm at threats to media freedom in central Europe
As Donald Trump and his friends take control in the United States, the AEJ has raised the alarm about gathering threats to media freedom in central Europe.The following is a statement from honorary AEJ president Otmar Lahodynsky, former international […]
The rise of the Global South: implications for Europe and the west
How to improve the poor state of relations between the UK and Europe and the countries of the Global South?Relations that are more important than ever at a time when the basic principles of post Second World War international […]
Ukraine – a strategic review
The AEJ UK got an insider's updated view of Ukraine at a lunchtime meeting on November 28.Olena Sotnyk, an advisor to Ukraine's deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration and senior representative in Kyiv of geopolitical consultants Rasmussen […]
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 […]
Alternatives for Germany
What are the alternatives for Germany – and Europe?Recent unprecedented election gains in regional elections in eastern Germany for the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland party have shocked Germany’s political establishment and observers around Europe.But should […]
UK parties offer patchy policies on media
The party manifestos for the UK general election on July 4 were launched this week amid much fanfare and hype.But how much substance is there when it comes to policies on the media and […]
Europe’s “nightmare scenario” as elections near
With the European Parliament elections of June 6 – 9 predicted to show a turn to the right and ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, it's actually energy security that is likely to become […]
Media Freedom
Europe’s human rights spokesman: Trump US aid cuts threaten journalism
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, has called on EU member states to counter severe damage from US President Donald Trump's […]
Media Freedom Forum March 4 and 5
The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ) and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) held an inaugural UK Media Freedom Forum on March 4 and […]
AEJ leaves X (Twitter)
The AEJ-UK has disengaged from the social media platform X.It voted to leave at its Annual General Meeting in a judgment that X, formerly Twitter, […]
News
Heavy jail sentences for Just Stop Oil protesters spark outcry
Human rights and freedom groups have joined a chorus of criticism against stiff prison sentences for five Just Stop Oil protesters.A Southwark Crown Court judge sentenced the activist environmental group's co-founder Roger Hallam to five years in prison and the other four defendants to 4-year terms on July 18 – the longest sentences ever imposed for […]
International Court of Justice orders end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories
In a landmark opinion, the International Court of Justice, the UN's top court, has ruled that Israel's 57-year occupation of Palestinian territories is against international law.The court's 15-judge panel said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, end its "illegal" occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip as soon […]
UK government resumes funding for UNRWA in Gaza
The new Labour government has overturned a suspension in UK funding for relief agency UNRWA in Gaza and will provide £21 million in new support.Funding was frozen in January after Israel claimed 12 UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October Hamas attacks in Israel. The allegations remain unproven; UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works […]
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 […]
Reflections on Mikhail Gorbachev
The death of former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev on August 30 2022 of course sparked strongly mixed reaction around the world.And perhaps unsurprisingly reopened wildly […]
