Jourová Says Countries Where Journalists Killed Must Stop SLAPP Suits
She wouldn't name them – Malta and Slovakia – but European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourová said countries where journalists have been murdered must offer more protections, including against SLAPP suits aimed at silencing them.
EU Transparency Chief Says Media's Role Sustaining Democracy Slighted
The European Union “made a horrible mistake in Europe by underestimating the role of media for upholding democracy,” European Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová said, citing the murders of journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta in 2017 and Ján Kuciak in Slovakia in 2018. Both probed high-level corruption.
In Plea, Killer of Malta Journalist Caruana Galizia Gets Reduced Sentence
A partially-blind hitman who confessed to killing Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in October, 2017 with a car bomb was given a reduced 15-year sentence in a case that still hasn't seen the prosecution of those who ordered it.