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“I hope you’ll never need our legal assistance — but if you do, you know where to find us,” a senior legal advisor at the Berlin-based European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) wrote yesterday on social media, referring to previous strategic litigation against public participation (Slapp) against EUobserver. We appreciate the support and solidarity at a time when legal threats are increasingly used to silence independent journalism.
Like any other media outlet which has not given up on investigative reporting, we are used to angry lawyers reaching out on behalf of their clients who don’t like how they've been written about in our articles.
Over the last 25 years, we’ve had our share of legal threats and lawsuits. Andrew Rettman’s latest piece lists EUobserver's top tips on how to survive a Slapp.
Below, you can also see a right of reply by Vazil Hudak, former vice president of the European Investment Bank. You can read the Bankwatch oped we published on 5 December and Hudak's right of reply.
PS. Revolving doors are as old as politics itself. And it is problematic. The term refers to the movement of high-level employees from public-sector jobs into private-sector roles, raising concerns about conflicts of interest. We support Bankwatch’s efforts to shed light on this phenomenon, also occurring in financial institutions.
- Elena Sánchez Nicolás, editor-in-chief
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