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EU experts rebuke Hungary, France, Italy(BRUSSELS ) - A high-level panel of experts reviewing the state of press freedom in Europe voiced concerns Wednesday over Hungary's controversial media laws, but also took Italy and France to task.Posted on 25 January 2012 | 6:11 pm
Hungary should change its media law, chiefBrussels (dpa) - Hungary‘s conservative government "would be wise" to change its controversial media law, the head of an expert panel tasked by the European Commission with looking into media freedom concluded on Wednesday.Last year, the Hungarian law sparked international outrage, with critics seeing it as aimed at stifling government criticism. EU authorities intervened, forcing some ...
Posted on 25 January 2012 | 4:54 pm
Populism’s rise threatens stabilityRIGA - On the LTV program ‘De facto,’ former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga expressed her viewpoint on the upcoming referendum on state language status for Russian, calling it a “fabricated problem created by politicians for their own purposes,” reports LETA. Vike-Freiberga on Sunday night said she is dismayed that over 20 years after the Freedom Barricades, Latvia will see a national ...
Posted on 25 January 2012 | 2:39 pm
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Femme au foyer: Order of the Cross of TerraHe joins the ranks of distinguished persons such as former Latvian presidents Valdis Zatlers, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga and Guntis Ulmanis, as well as former US president George W. Bush as recipients of this decoration.Posted on 8 February 2012 | 9:15 am
Latvia ex-president sees hardly any changes"I have not noticed any significant changes in Latvian government's work," says Latvia ex-president Vaira-Vike Freiberga, when assessing the first 100 days of the current government.
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 6:54 am
Hungary tumbles down press freedom rankingsYesterday Vaira Vike-Freiberga, a former president of Latvia who is leading the EU's independent high level group on press freedom, said the Hungarian press suffered from an “extraordinary concentration of power”. Topics ...
Posted on 28 January 2012 | 5:48 am
France, “bad example” in Europe for theThe Orban supervision “would be great suggested to recur a laws as great as regulations adopted” , supports a former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who heads a group. “NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR EUROPE” ...
Posted on 25 January 2012 | 6:50 pm
Vike-Freiberga sharesOn January 15-16, ex-President Vaira Vike-Freiberga participated in a high-level meeting in Beirut, Lebanon. The meeting – Reforms and Transitions to Democracy – was organized by the United Nations Economic ...
Posted on 17 January 2012 | 11:30 am
