Budapest – ESI at launch of "Reporting Democracy"
31 May 2019
On 31 May 2019 around 100 journalists, academics and activists gathered for the "Reporting Democracy Conference", held to mark the launch of a new cross-border journalism platform covering the state of democracy in Visegrad Four countries and the Balkans. ESI's Kristof Bender spoke in the first panel on "The Erosion of European Democracy: Causes & Consequences". The other panels focused on threats and opportunities for media and on civic protest in Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
- Programme
- All panels can be watched here: Reporting Democracy, "BIRN conference probes democracy's pressure points", 4 June 2019
- BIRN, "BIRN Reporting Democracy Project Warns Freedom is in Peril", 31 May 2019
- Talas, "Odbrana demokratije u vremenu straha - BIRN lansirao platformu o stanju demokratije u Evropi" (Defending democrady in the time of fear - BIRN launched platform on the status of democracy in Europe), 31 May 2019
- ESI report: Under Siege – Why Polish courts matter for Europe, 22 March 2019
- ESI newsletter: Dark twins – Viktor, Matteo and the Drowning of Europe (16 August 2018)
- New website of Reporting Democracy: reportingdemocracy.org