Media Development Center

    6 June 2022 Media Development Center

    Pioneering Anti-SLAPP training coming to 11 EU member states in 2022-23

    EC funded project Pioneering Anti-SLAPP Training for Freedom of Expression (PATFox) to provide training to legal professionals from autumn 2022 PATFox will design Europe’s first Anti-SLAPP curriculum for training across member states. Materials will be made freely available to all on project website antislapp.eu Project showcase at digital rights conference RightsCon on Tuesday 7 June 12.30 CEST Strategic […]

    27 September 2019 Media Development Center

    The first European Anonymous Tipping Web Site is Available from Today

    Today we release the European Anonymous Tipping web site! This is an European initiative “WIDELY EXPANDING ANONYMOUS TIPPING TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT, OPERATION, AND TRUSTWORTHINESS TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE (EAT)” developed by civil society organisations from the top 10 countries with the highest level of corruption in Europe, according to Transparency International’s Corruption […]

    7 March 2023 Media Development Center

    Monitoring of the media coverage of the new Law on the protection of persons reporting or publicly disclosing information on breaches (the “Whistleblowing Law”) which transposes the requirements of Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law – short analyses of the media coverage and the way the Bulgarian citizens are being informed on the issue

    Bulgaria delayed the transposition of the EU Directive of Whistleblower protection in the national legislation and missed the deadline – of 17 December 2021. The Law on protection of persons reporting or publicly disclosing information on breaches (the “Whistleblowing Law”) was adopted on 27 January 2023. This adoption was preceded by back-and-forth steps of all […]

    3 March 2023 Media Development Center

    Brussels showcase for pioneering frontline action against SLAPPs

    28 February 2023, 9am-1pm CET, European Parliament Room SPAAK C750 and online (shorturl.at/lwGMO); in-person registration still possible before 20 February Anti-SLAPP Legal Training event at the European Parliament will hear first insights from EU co-funded PATFox project, which has been devising Europe’s first Anti-SLAPP curriculum and organising training for lawyers across 11 EU member states PATFox […]

    19 June 2022 Media Development Center

    Monitoring of the media coverage on EU Directive 2019/1937 on protection of whistleblowers and respectively the way the general public is informed on its rights and opportunities the Directive offers for the citizens – short analyses of the media coverage and the way the Bulgarian citizens are being informed on the issue

    The monitoring covers the period March 2021 – June 2022. The general impression is that the coverage of the Directive is moderate, and goes into six main segments: 1. Specialized coverage – mainly on Law offices web pages – 5 2. NGOs web pages – 5 3. General and Specialized Media – 10 4. New […]