Some EU governments are pushing laws to directly allow state surveillance of journalists. 😐
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2023/eu-media-freedom-act-governments-exemption-spy-surveillance-journalists/.
#investigate #europe #surveillance #freespeach #attack #FundamentalRights.
“My case shows how easy it is to use national security as a pretext to threaten journalists and their sources,” says Koukakis. If the EU actually passed a law “legalising such measures without external control and public scrutiny, that would be very disappointing,” he says. “That wouldn’t be the Europe of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.”
