Brussels, 21 May 2013. The European Parliament today adopted a report designed to reinforce media freedom and pluralism across the EU. The report ‘EU Charter: Structure setting for Media Freedom across the EU’, was carried by 539 votes (with 70 against and 78 abstentions). Read the rest of this entry »

The latest reforms to UK libel law will encourage greater freedom of expression, believes Robert Sharpe, Head of Campaigns & Communications at English PEN. In a useful and informative article, he explains the new UK Defamation Act 2013 and discusses how it may develop in practice. Read more on this entry.

An opinion piece in euobserver suggests that progress in improving the system of registration for EU lobbyists is not going well. With incidents such as MEPs copy-pasting amendments from US lobbyists and the appointment of a tobacco lobbyist to a top ethics panel, authors Craig Holman and Koen Roovers argue that Read the rest of this entry »

Agent Hunter is not, as I first thought, some new software program to help find spyware on your laptop. Rather, it is a useful way of finding the literary agent who will assist you in showing your beautiful mind to (hopefully) an admiring audience. Read more on this entry – Members’ section.

From a recent debate in the UK Parliament’s House of Lords on the report from the Leveson Inquiry: Read the rest of this entry »

Brussels, 21/02/2013. The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee adopted today the report by ALDE MEP Renate Weber (PNL, Romania) on an “EU Charter: Standard settings for Media Freedom across the EU”. Read more on this entry.

Brussels, January 31, 2013. A majority of people across Europe are concerned about ethics and lobbying in European Union policy-making, and want better regulation of lobbyists as well as increased transparency within the EU, according to a new opinion poll. Read more on this entry.

Brussels, 06 December 2012. The European Commission today published a new set of guidelines for EU officials who wish to expose what they may see as mismanagement, fraud or corruption. Read more on this entry.

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