The state of freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2013, according to Freedom in the World 2014, Freedom House’s annual country-by-country report on global political rights and civil liberties.Particularly notable were developments in Egypt, which...
Comisia Europeană a dat publicității raportul MCV pentru România și Bulgaria. Acesta poate fi consultat pe site-ul Comisiei sau poate fi descarcat mai jos. raport_MCV_-RO.pdf
„Guvernul ucrainean nu și-a respectat promisiunile privind protejarea libertății de exprimare, iar corupția și standardele etice foarte joase distrug media în Ucraina,” arată un Raport Freedom House dat publicității în 2 decembrie 2013. Sunt astfel puse la îndoială...
Chinese Communist Party media controls are increasingly constraining news outlets based outside China. This is the key finding of a report released today, authored by Freedom House research analyst Sarah Cook and published by the Center for International Media...
Broad surveillance, new laws controlling web content, and growing arrests of social-media users drove a worldwide decline in internet freedom in the past year, according to a new study released today by Freedom House. Nonetheless, Freedom on the Net 2013 also found...
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision Wednesday to cancel the planned bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin in early September was the right thing to do for many reasons. It also marked much-needed corrections in Obama's "reset" policy toward Russia. An...
National Democratic GovernanceThe year 2012 began with a shakeup of Romania's government, followed by a power grab on the part of the country's new leadership. After the resignation of Boc and a no-confidence vote that ended the brief tenure of his successor, Prime...
Each year in May, Freedom House, a Washington, D.C.–based institute that specializes in research on global democracy, issues a report on the condition of press freedom around the world. The most significant—and disturbing—finding of Freedom of the Press 2013: A Global...
As President Barack Obama enters his second term, relations with Russia present him with a set of thorny problems. The first-term "reset," a fresh American posture toward the Kremlin that was designed to build productive relations by offering compromises on a range of...
Middle East Volatility amid Global Decline Ongoing political turmoil produced uneven conditions for press freedom in the Middle East in 2012, with Tunisia and Libya largely retaining their gains from 2011 even as Egypt slid backward into the Not Free category. The...