A Hungarian lawyer representing Ferenc Pál Biró, president of Hungary’s Integrity Authority, has sent a legal notice to the Brussels-based outlet EUalive’s Georgi Gotev, demanding the removal of an article, a public retraction and 5 million forints (about €14,000) in damages. The dispute centers on how EUalive summarized and contextualized prior reporting by the Hungarian…
Now at home in the European Commission’s Midday Briefing, Hussein Hasan spent two decades reporting amid war, sectarian violence and government crackdowns in Baghdad, Turkey and Syria. Yet the France 24 correspondent still recalls the jolt of his arrival in Brussels. Standing outside the Berlaymont with a camera in hand, he half expected to be stopped and asked for press credentials.
The erosion of transparency and access for Brussels-based journalists dominated discussion at the launch of the EU Journalism Initiative (EUJI) at the Brussels Press Club. The panel, featuring speakers from Investigate Europe, MLex and POLITICO Europe, quickly focused on what participants described as tightening control over information flows in the EU capital.