Photo: EC - Audiovisual Service The EU rule of law report is an important step towards strengthening the foundational values of the Union – respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights. To this end, many civil society and...

(EN) Hi there! I study French at the University of Oxford and for the next four months I will be working as an intern for the Association of European Journalists in Belgium. As part of my internship I will work with the organisation to write articles and plan events,...

Photo: Young Bled Strategic Forum 2021 By Maya Szaniecki, new intern at AEJ Belgium “Young people are the future, but they’re also the present,” - with this Michael O’Flaherty, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, set the tone for the Third...

Next in the AEJ Belgium autumn program: we will be hosting a hybrid online-live event with the House of Jean Monnet as a special setting! This mixer was originally scheduled on the 29th of June 2021 (the date of our current event at the Press Club Brussels), but was...

Live Media EventAssociation of European Journalists Belgium & Press Club Brussels Europe Tuesday, the 29th of June 2021from 6 to 8 pmLive @The Press Club - BrusselsFroissartstraat, 95, Rue Froissart1040 Brussels It's back! AEJ Belgium will be presenting its...

CAPSULE AEJ BELGIUM AVEC GOLD FM ET BES / Dirk Vandereyken Chief Operating Officer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swRf_gB6V9Y CAPSULE AEJ BELGIUM AVEC GOLD FM ET BES / Wytze Van der Gaast / Chief Financial Officer...

The joint webinar with our German Colleagues Vereinigung Europaischer Journalisten (VEJ) has been postponed. We will inform you soon about our new date! The event will be open to AEJ Belgium members and EU Correspondents. “Exploring the importance for Europeans of the...

More than 60 human rights and media organisations have written an open letter to all Members of the European Parliament urging them to reject the proposed Terrorist Content Online Regulation since provisions for the automatic removal of content online seriously...

Ahead of the trial of journalists Catarina Andreeva and Darja Chulcova, on 9 February, the Belarussian Association of Journalists (BAJ) calls on journalists and media freedom’ organisations to do everything possible to demand the immediate release of the 11...

AEJ Belgium has joined other media freedom organisation who are calling on authorities to end the ongoing extradition proceedings against whistleblower Jonathan Taylor in Croatia. Here the full statement:   We, the undersigned Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR)...

Otmar Lahodynsky with Barroso at the Forum Alpbach/Tirol. (Photo: Thomas Böhm/TT)   Interview with Otmar Lahodynsky on media and the importance of advocacy by Alena Bieling (@AlenaBieling)   Our international President Otmar Lahodynsky has given his thoughts on recent...

The members of the EU media advocacy sent a letter to the president of the European Commission, Parliament and Council in support EU commissioner for values and transparency Věra Jourová following the attacks of Hungary's Prime Minister and his government:   30...

The EU media advocacy group is calling on the German Presidency and the EP Budget Committee to expand the long-term EU budget for Creative Europe - which aims to support the European audiovisual, cultural and creative sector.  During the negotiations, the European...

  We added the updated versions of our statutes in 3 different languages: Dutch, English and French! These are the official statutes that appeared in the 'Belgisch Staatsblad'. We've made all versions available as PDFs, so if you're interested in getting to know more...

Biometric recognition for tracking, surveillance and detecting emotions should have no place in Europe's human-centric approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI), says the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in its response to the European Commission's White...

The EU Council has launched a series of reading lists to provide an overview of disinformation research. Disinformation was indeed extensively used by Soviet Russia during the Cold War and even before that. After the demise of the Soviet Union, Western governments...

Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners, journalist bodies, free expression and journalist support organisations are concerned about the legal threats made against EUobserver in Luxembourg and Belgium and call to stop the use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public...

With our partners of the EU Media Advocacy Group where our AEJ Belgium president Lieven Taillie represents AEJ International we ask the upcoming Germany Presidency to go for an ambitious the EU's long-term budget (Multi-annual Financial Framework - MFF) that reserves...