The European Parliament published its report on the work of Frontex and the violations of the rights of migrants. Numerous issues were highlighted

With the suspension of the Frontex budget and the launch of a parliamentary commission to shed light on alleged human rights violations in illegal pushbacks at European borders, the European Parliament affirms the political will to acknowledge the rights of migrants. We talked about it with MEP Pierfrancesco Majorino

Nel 2013 250.000 cittadini europei hanno aderito ad un'iniziativa civica su pluralismo e libertà dei media, senza però raggiungere l'obiettivo del milione di firme necessarie. Il problema di armonizzare le normative europee sul tema della libertà e del pluralismo dei media resta all'ordine del giorno. Quale la situazione alla vigilia della nuova Commissione europea? Un'intervista a Lorenzo Marsili

We publish the detailed report of the speakers' talks at the policy workshop "Elections at the time of social media. European elections, disinformation, micro-targeting: what to do?", which took place last May 14th in Rome, within the project ESVEI promoted by OBC Transeuropa/ CCI

Online political advertising in Europe

An overview on online political advertising in the run-up to the EU elections through a series of data-driven articles realised within the European Data Journalism Network

Social media advertising: more than half a million euro spent on the European elections | Openpolis

How parties court voters online | Spiegel online

How much did the European institutions and parties pay for ads on Facebook? | OBC Transeuropa

Political advertising on Facebook in South-East Europe | OBC Transeuropa

Facebook´s transparency is lacking – this is why it still is hard to examine political advertising | Journalism++

Facebook has become political parties’ main advertiser | VoxEurope

As hate speech is being debated more and more both online and offline, we decided to devote a special dossier to it, building on the materials of the Resource Centre on Press and Media Freedom in Europe.

Media freedom, public interest, transparency, data journalism, facts-based information: all these issues have been dealt with in Sofia, during the Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon, a writing marathon on media freedom-related issues in Wikipedia which gathered journalists, experts and activists

The second edition of the Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon will take place in Sofia on November 27th. It will boost the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom and pluralism in the largest open encyclopedia worldwide

The impact of cyber-attacks, digital surveillance and sophisticated techniques of computational propaganda is growing. The case of Serbia in an interview with Vladan Joler, director of Share Foundation

On November 21^st, OBC Transeuropa organises in Belgrade a writing marathon of Wikipedia entries on press freedom. The initiative is part of a larger project – here it is, in 10 points

Come altri paesi europei, la Croazia ha iniziato un processo di deistituzionalizzazione delle cura e dell'assistenza alle persone disabili. Tuttavia, come denuncia un recente rapporto di Human Rights Watch, sono ancora 8200 le persone che vivono in strutture residenziali e ospediali psichiatrici in condizioni dure e spesso disumane.

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Le fotografie di Euromaidan in Ucraina ci interrogano sulla violenza e la sua rappresentazione. È possibile trattare questioni geopolitiche complesse sui social media senza perdere di vista il contesto e la sostanza politica degli eventi?

Attempts at media reform in Serbia appear to have run aground. International organizations are denouncing a number of abridgments of press freedoms within the country, which are slowly amounting to a new form of control

E' il cuore della fragile democrazia kosovara e non è esente da ingerenze politiche e assenza di indipendenza. Un'analisi dell'operato della Corte costituzionale - a firma di Andrea Capussela e pubblicato da EURAC - mette in luce il grave problema di governance del Kosovo indipendente