On June 17, Spain's Congress voted against an anti-corruption proposal which aimed to transpose the EU Whistleblower Directive into national law.

Citing privacy concerns from the country's Data Protection Authorities, Norway's public health agency stopped using a COVID-19 track and trace app and deleted all the data collected to date.

Today Blueprint for Free Speech published an Op Ed in the Spanish mainstream media publication ElDiario.es, highlighting how the proposal to protect whistleblowers that is being considered in the Congress today falls short of protecting them, and also fails to transpose the European Directive 2019/1937.

This week, the political party Ciudadanos has stepped forward pushing whistleblower protection near the top of its lawmaking agenda for this session. Blueprint’s Dr Suelette Dreyfus and Bruno Galizzi make the case for robust protections in line with the EU Whistleblowing Directive.

After many delays, whistleblower protection has made it on to the legislative agenda in Spain. Over the next two days, Spain’s Congress will debate and vote on a proposal made by the political party Ciudadanos.

With the media under siege by police and governments during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, there's a need for quality journalism by veteran reporters providing real news, according to European Commission Vice President for Transparency Věra Jourová.

For years, experts have claimed that Germany’s stance in fighting corruption is far from solid – now, another political scandal underlines the dire need for better legislation on transparency and lobbying in the EU’s largest Member State.

Facing a parliamentary probe into her handling of a case into whether the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis paid bribes to Greek politicians, anti-corruption chief Eleni Touloupaki denied wrongdoing and said she's the victim of a “coordinated attempt at moral extermination.”

For Americans used to seeing scenes of journalists in authoritarian countries being harassed, intimidated, jailed and killed, the sight of reporters covering protests over the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer being assaulted by police was shocking – but it kept up.

Furious over an attack on a TV news team near the White House by U.S. Park Police clearing the way for President Donald Trump to walk to a church for a photo opportunity, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanded answers.

Journalist Annika Smethurst, whose home was raided by police looking for the source of a story disclosing government plans to spy on citizens, won't be charged, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said even as they claimed there was a “serious breach” of the law.

With Australia's government clamping down on journalists for revealing state secrets to spy on citizens and alleged war crimes by its soldiers in Afghanistan, 30 editors, reporters and media organizations face trial for reporting details of Cardinal George Pell's 2018 child sex abuse conviction that was voided on appeal.