NATO refused summit press accreditation to dozens of Turkish independent and opposition journalists in Ankara, saying it relied on the host government's assessments — prompting a 17-organisation press-freedom rebuke.
Luxembourg's parliament has passed a law granting professional journalists a statutory right of access to official documents, tightening obligations on public bodies and overhauling press aid.
A Greek former MEP who helped investigate spyware abuse was himself hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus while serving on the European Parliament's PEGA committee, the Citizen Lab found.
Forensic researchers at the Citizen Lab say former MEP Stelios Kouloglou, who sat on the European Parliament's PEGA committee investigating commercial spyware, was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus at least twice in 2022 and 2023. No government has been named, but the case has reignited the Parliament's long-running fight over mercenary surveillance and rule-of-law safeguards across the EU.
Publisher Mike Koedinger launched a Luxembourg-based foundation on 25 June, warning that press freedom and democratic debate cannot be taken for granted even in one of the world's highest-ranked countries.
As Turkey readies to host NATO's leaders in Ankara on 7-8 July, it has detained more than 200 critics and banned all protests, drawing condemnation from rights groups and renewed questions over its EU candidacy.