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Lunchtime meetings 17 May 2013 Dr Richard Corbett Member of the cabinet of Herman van Rompuy, President of the European
Council 10 June 2013 Sir Nicolas Bratza President of the European Court
of Human Rights until October
2012 8 July 2013 Rt Hon David
Lidington MP UK Minister for Europe The
AEJ has reluctantly decided to raise the fee charged for attending these
meetings to £25. We
have held the charge stable for more than a decade but now have to
acknowledge the power of inflation. We therefore hope that our members and
friends will understand our need and will continue to give us their greatly
valued support. Journalists under the age of 25 pay a special rate of
£10. Meetings are usually held at the European Parliament’s London Office (Europe House, 32 Smith Square, SW1). The EP’s UK website gives details of its own events, of which visitors may be notified by email. You can see a list of our recent lunchtime guests in Past Events Charlemagne Lecture 2013 The annual Charlemagne Lecture will be given this year by HE Georg Boomgarden, German Ambassador to the UK. It will be held at Europe House on 7 June at 6.30 p.m. Anyone wishing to attend should register their interest on the attached form with the Wyndham Place Charlemage Trust. _______________________________ Rory Peck Awards 2013 These awards to freelance cameramen and camerawomen are now open for entries. They must be broadcast between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2013 and belong to one of three categories: news, features and the Sony Impact Award. A news entry may be up to 10 minutes long and the other two, up to 60 minutes. The closing date for entries is 3 June 2013. Rory Peck Awards _______________________________ World Press Freedom Day 2013 Activities
to mark 3 May were
organised by many AEJ sections across Europe. Further information will appear
on the news page of
the international AEJ's website. The UK
section supported the NUJ's 2 May meeting on solidarity with Turkish
journalists. This was part of a campaign organised by the European
Federation of Journalists. UNESCO's annual conference was
held in Costa Rica on 2-4 May. William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom
Representative, spoke on fighting impunity for crimes of violence against
journalists. _______________________________ Media freedom – latest
documents William Horsley's latest in-depth report for the Council of Europe on the State of Media Freedom in Europe finds that physical assaults and judicial harassment of journalists and media workers in southern and eastern Europe grew more intense in the second half of 2012. See Media Freedom page. UNESCO’s record for the year shows that as many as 115 journalists were killed in 2012. The media community delivered the London Statement on journalists' safety and the issue of impunity to an important UN conference in Vienna late last year.
UNESCO has since drawn up an ambitious implementation
strategy for the UN Plan, including 120 lines of action by UN agencies,
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EU consults on media freedom The AEJ welcomed
the announcement
of a public consultation on media freedom and pluralism in the EU by
Commissioner Neelie Kroes on 22 March. The AEJ has told the Commission that
we will take part actively in the debate on the role and powers of the EU in
safeguarding media freedom in the face of multiple threats, especially those
arising from misuses of state power against independent media. See the AEJ website for a fuller
account of the Media Freedom Representative's remarks. It has also
published a summary of the Media Freedom Representative's remarks to the Mediadem conference on 7
February. For further detail, see the Mediadem
website ____________________________________________ Media visits to the European Parliament The
EP’s London Office has a small budget to offset some of the travel and
hotel costs incurred by journalists when visiting the European Parliament.
Only a limited number can be helped in this way, so you must first be invited
by the UK Office before seeking reimbursement (see website). _______________________________ About us The AEJ is an independent, self-funding association for journalists, writers and specialists in European affairs. The UK section is part of a Europe-wide network of some 20 national sections across Europe, with more than 1000 members in all. In the UK section, we arrange for leading newsmakers from across Europe to give briefings to us about once a month, over lunch at the office of the European Parliament in London. We also organise special events, such as seminars, from time to time. The AEJ offers journalists the chance to be part of a network of media professionals and experts on European issues. Membership can provide valuable mutual support for individual journalists (it is open to both UK and non-UK nationals). If you would like to join, please go to the Membership page. We are not tied to any institutional or political group but are recognised by the Council of Europe, the OSCE and UNESCO. Our goals are to advance knowledge and debate on European affairs and to uphold media freedom. Internationally, the AEJ has an active programme of professional activities and the annual AEJ Congress is a forum for debate on matters of common concern to journalists across the continent. A high priority is given to the AEJ's Media Freedom Project. AEJ Media Freedom Project The AEJ works to protect freedom of expression and independent journalism by bringing issues to the attention of governments and advising inter-governmental organisations on behalf of our members. The AEJ's Media Freedom Representative is William Horsley, a former BBC foreign correspondent and the current chairman of the UK section. Since the AEJ Media Freedom Survey in 2007 (Goodbye to Freedom?),
the AEJ has published Europe-wide surveys that reveal the erosion of press
freedom through physical assaults, wrongful imprisonment, oppressive laws,
and unacceptable political and commercial pressures. The AEJ is an observer at the Council of Europe. It actively supports
the ongoing efforts of UNESCO,
the UN Agency with a mandate to safeguard media freedom, to implement the draft
UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
(text).
The AEJ Media Freedom Representative authored the OSCE's Safety of Journalists Guidebook
setting out the obligations of participating states to protect the security
of journalists, including those using the Internet. AEJ and the
Council of Europe The AEJ takes part in the policy
work of the Council of Europe (CoE) on key
issues, including journalists' safety and the freedom of the Internet, as a
participant in the Steering
Committee on Media and Information Society. It works
on behalf of its members across Europe to hold the CoE and its 47 member
states to their commitments on media freedom and freedom of expression. To read further, please go to Media Freedom. Our campaigns and activities can be tracked on the News
and Media
Freedom pages of the international AEJ website. See also World Press
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Home A selection of writings with an AEJ connection Firdevs Robinson: (17 April 2013) William Horsley and Jackie Harrison: (March 2013) Firdevs Robinson: Has
Turkey (18 February 2013) Firdevs Robinson: Turkey's Juggling Act (23 October 2012) David Buchan: Outsiders on the inside: Swiss and Norwegian lessons for the UK (24 September 2012) William Horsley: BBC to host global editors' meeting on life-and-death issues (21 September 2012) See left-hand column Richard Wordsworth: Russia's jilted generation (8 September 2012) Firdevs Robinson: Turkey's Syria Conundrum (22 August 2012) William Horsley: It's the journalism, stupid: Defending free expression can be the BBC's new gift to the world (17 June 2012) Firdevs Robinson: Cyprus: One step forward, two steps back (May 2012) Please feel welcome to contact
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