While journalism is considered especially dangerous business in Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia and the Pacific, the situation can be just as dire in the European Union, as the killings of investigative reporters Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta and Jan Kuciak in Slovakia showed.

En España se están dando los primeros pasos hacia la transposición de la Directiva de la Unión Europea para la protección de los alertadores. Blueprint For Free Speech ha elaborado una guía para la transposición de la ley basada en la experiencia legislativa internacional e implementaciones prácticas en la legislación nacional. 

The ABRE coalition, of which Blueprint for Free Speech is a member, met with representatives of the Ministry of Justice in Spain today to discuss the transposition of the EU Whistleblowing Directive into national law.

As Spain begins consultations on a new nation-wide whistleblower protection law, Blueprint is publishing a new translation of Getting Whistleblower Protection Right: A Practical Guide to Transposing the EU Directive.

While Australia's government dropped prosecution of three journalists who used classified material to write about plans to surveil citizens and potential war crimes, they could be compelled to talk to the country's spy agency.

Australian police said journalist Dan Oakes won't be charged with obtaining classified information, clearing the last of three reporters who wrote about secret surveillance and possible war crimes.

In an effort of strengthening journalistic practices in the EU, the European Commission said it will allocate 61 million euros ($71.7 million) to help independent journalists, including fending off strategic lawsuits.

In their recent report, Transparency International demonstrates persistent gaps in the global fight against foreign bribery, saying only four of 47 countries surveyed were enforcing legislation aimed at combating the phenomenon.

Three years after being killed by a car bomb as she was looking into high-level corruption and ties between Malta's government and business executives, money laundering banks and mobsters, the European Parliament has named a prize in “Outstanding Journalism Work” in the name of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Abdullah Bozkurt, a Sweden-based Turkish journalist and the Executive Director of the Nordic Monitor was attacked by three men outside his home in Stockholm and beaten, following his coverage of Turkish politics and intelligence.

In a blow to countries that require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to store and make their customers' data available to national intelligence agencies, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down the practice in a ruling against France, the United Kingdom and Belgium.

In a recent audit, the European Union found that Hungary isn't doing enough to stop corruption, while Poland is forging ahead with judicial takeovers and stifling media freedom.