Freedom of speech
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Denmark: ‘Words are met with bullets’
6 February 2013254PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
Freedom of speech: No laughing matter
20 September 201255 Le Monde Paris -
What is news?: The prince and the public interest
29 August 2012PresseuropBlog -
Hungary: The Beijing model
4 August 20112146 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Debate: Geert Wilders, a Voltaire for our times?
27 June 201130912 Trouw Amsterdam -
The Netherlands: Wilders acquitted of hate speech charges
24 June 2011Presseurop -
Belarus: Iryna Vidanava - the regime is trying to restrict us even more
3 June 2011PresseuropBlog -
United Kingdom: Can’t gag the gagging orders debate
25 May 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Belarus: Polish Lukashenko critic faces jail
29 March 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Anti-terrorism: Austria approves thought-crime bill
21 April 20101PresseuropDie Presse -
France: Sarkozy MP wants writer muzzled
13 November 2009PresseuropLibération -
Terrorism: Mohammed cartoons: Jyllands-Posten still under threat
28 October 2009PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Germany: Two Chinas, all the fun at the book fair
13 October 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau
Victor Orban's controversial media law entered fully into force in July. After one month, the upshot is: mass layoffs of critical journalists and the allegation that the head of government is forcing the public media to toe his own line, making his regime ever more authoritarian.
Geert Wilders's acquittal on hate speech charges may open up a new trend in Europe. Now that governments have stopped defending multiculturalism, critics of Islam can come back out into the open, writes a Dutch intellectual pleased with the decision.