Liberties joins the European Partnership for Democracy to call for meaningful transparency of media ownership at both the national and the EU level. Here are nine recommendations for how the EU can achieve that through the European Media Freedom Act.

Journalists and rights defenders must be better protected against abusive lawsuits aka SLAPPs. Here's why Liberties and a coalition of human rights organisations think the Swedish EU Presidency could do a better job against SLAPPs.

In response to a crisis, the state can grant itself special powers to protect citizens from danger. However, as the Covid-19 pandemic showed, this increases the opportunities for abuses of power as many democratic checks and balances are weakened.

Greece’s ruling New Democracy government survived a no-confidence vote initiated by the main opposition party SYRIZA over the wiretapping scandal “Predatorgate”.

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture's new report found no allegations of mistreatment by police and satisfactory conditions in holding cells and prisons, but urged authorities not to drag their feet in modernising the country's detention centres.

The Czech Republic is considering making the spread of fake news illegal in its efforts to tackle disinformation. The country saw a surge in disinformation networks during the pandemic and since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A monthly round-up of Liberties' work: European governments weakening democracy, political integrity a blind spot in EU institutions, and why ethics can be costly.

In February’s edition of Democracy Drinks Berlin, Liberties was joined by Flora Cresswell and Jorge Valladares of Transparency International to discuss the fallout of Qatargate and understand how the cash-for-influence scandal was allowed to happen.

Qatargate at the European Parliament, continued deep corruption in Hungary, unprotected whistleblowers everywhere. Liberties’ annual EU-wide rule of law report found rules created by governments were too weak to stop or reduce corruption in 2022.

Liberties’ Rule Of law Report 2023 shows that civil society continues to be given the cold shoulder by EU governments in 2022. This hostility feeds negative public perceptions of activists and contributes to the increasing dangers they face.