by admin | Feb 8, 2016 | Europe
Towards the end of last month the Danish parliament voted in a new law which allows police to search asylum seekers on arrival in the country and confiscate any non-essential items worth more than 10,000 kroner (£1,000) that have no sentimental value. In...
by admin | Jun 9, 2015 | Europe, media freedom, Turkey
Just two weeks before the general election in Turkey on 7 June the New York Times ran an editorial ‘Dark clouds over Turkey’. It reported rising tensions in the country and that opposition supporters were fearful of a new crackdown to ensure that the...
by admin | Dec 10, 2014 | Europe, media freedom, Russia, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) today (8 December) have condemned the Russian authorities for forcing the independent TV channel, TV Dozhd, (TV Rain) out from its premises in Moscow. According to the EFJ...
by admin | Nov 24, 2014 | Europe, international, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) annual meeting was held in Moscow last week and it was my first visit to Russia since the dramatic and turbulent days of Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s. Then one Rouble was worth one Pound Sterling. Now 100 Roubles are...
by admin | Jun 5, 2014 | Europe, media freedom, Turkey, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has criticized a new wave of violence against journalists in Turkey covering the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests. Journalists covering the Gezi protests’ anniversary in Istanbul and Ankara have again been beaten,...
by admin | Nov 7, 2011 | Campaigns, Europe, unions
Bill Gates is in favour and so is the Archbishop of Canterbury, and if were still alive today so would be St Paul. But what of our own (and still very much alive) Chancellor, George Osborne? Well his public position is that he is in favour, provided that it is applied...
