Europe’s journalists are at risk. Here’s what the E.U. could do to protect them
Today, as we mark World Press Freedom Day, it is worth recalling that Europe has recently been rocked by the shocking murders of two investigative journalists. In Malta, a car bomb killed Daphne Caruana Galizia. In Slovakia, assassins’ bullets took the lives of 27-year-old Jan Kuciak and his fiancee.
Both journalists had been pursuing stories that lay at the nexus of political corruption and organized crime. Both cases, thus far, remain unsolved. Both of the countries in which they were killed are members of the European Union.
So the murders point to a wider problem: The hard-won press freedoms in a continent that had shed its totalitarian past are much more fragile than we’ve come to believe.… Seguir leyendo »