Media and Multimedia
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26 January 20127PresseuropLa Stampa, Le Monde, Gazeta Wyborcza & 3 others
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25 January 20121Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw
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Internet
Right to be forgotten law welcomed
25 January 20127PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Internet
ACTA non grata
24 January 2012PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
2 January 2012PresseuropPúblico
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Internet
The new gold mine of open data
16 December 20113La Stampa Turin -
European of the Week
The cyber-revolutionary on Tahrir Square
6 December 20111Fokus Stockholm -
European Union
Look who sets the agenda now
29 November 201112De Morgen Brussels -
Mohammed cartoons
Satirical weekly offices attacked
2 November 20112PresseuropCharlie Hebdo -
24 October 20112The Irish Times Dublin
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Journalism
European prize contested
19 October 2011PresseuropExpressen -
Netherlands
Cracks open in Dutch digital dykes
6 September 2011PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Netherlands
Dutch register will eat your cookies
30 August 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Information
Readers 'Too small to change the world'
19 August 201116Die Zeit Hamburg -
United Kingdom
Journalist’s letter reignites hacking scandal
17 August 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
United Kingdom
Phone-hacking scandal deepens yet again
29 July 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
United Kingdom
Murdoch faces down MPs
20 July 2011PresseuropPresseurop -
United Kingdom
Phone hacking scandal – police chief quits
18 July 2011PresseuropThe Times -
Germany
Death of a media tycoon
15 July 2011PresseuropDie Welt -
United Kingdom
Phone hacking: questions for police
15 July 2011PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
United Kingdom
Gordon Brown was hacked too
12 July 2011PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
United Kingdom
Murdoch flies in to save crumbling empire
11 July 2011PresseuropThe Times -
United Kingdom
Murdoch sacrifices News of the World
8 July 20111PresseuropThe Times -
United Kingdom
PM’s future hacked by the Murdoch empire
7 July 2011The Daily Telegraph London -
5 July 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia
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Finland
Nokia: communications breakdown?
22 June 20111Helsingin Sanomat Helsinki -
United Kingdom
Hacking scandal now includes Tony Blair
9 June 2011PresseuropThe Guardian -
United Kingdom
Can’t gag the gagging orders debate
25 May 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
10 May 2011PresseuropThe Independent
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13 April 20111The Christian Science Monitor Boston
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Social networks
EU will protect your 4am party shame
17 March 20111PresseuropThe Guardian -
16 March 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita
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16 March 2011PresseuropNépszabadság
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Czech Republic
Military commando versus public television
14 March 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
8 March 2011PresseuropNépszabadság
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United Kingdom
Murdoch handed virtual media monopoly
4 March 20112PresseuropThe Independent -
25 February 2011PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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19 January 2011PresseuropRespekt
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European Commission
Hungary media law not “satisfactory”
18 January 2011PresseuropPravda -
Press freedom
It’s not just Hungary that’s muzzled
4 January 20111Der Standard Vienna -
European Union
The year of the end of secrets
23 December 2010PresseuropVisão -
22 December 2010PresseuropPúblico
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Hungary
Budapest, where are you going?
22 December 20105Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
United Kingdom
Always be nice to Mr Murdoch’s empire
22 December 20101PresseuropThe Independent -
Hungary
Budapest cracks down on press
21 December 2010PresseuropNépszabadság -
New technologies
Poland hits internet warp speed
17 December 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
14 December 2010EUobserver.com Brussels
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Internet
Google under investigation
1 December 20101PresseuropLa Tribune -
Wikileaks
What America thinks of us
29 November 20101PresseuropDer Spiegel -
26 November 2010L'Espresso Rome
As the Polish government prepares to sign the anti-piracy ACTA treaty, thousands of young internet users have taken to the streets in protest. Like most of their fellow Europeans, they fear it may “label their existential choices and free expression of identity as piracy,” explains internet anthropologist Piotr Cichocki. 
Encouraged by Brussels, the online availability of open data provided by public authorities could give rise to a multitude of applications that are useful to citizens and society, with economic gains estimated at no less than 140 billion euros per year. 
If Mubarak failed to cut the Egyptian revolutionaries off from the rest of the world last January, it was thanks to a Swedish student and theorist of hacktivism: Christopher Kullenberg, named “Swede of the Year” by the weekly Fokus. A profile. 
With the crisis, power is increasingly concentrated in Brussels, where not just European institutions but also the most powerful, English-speaking media, congregate. Both make the agenda for politics in member states, writes a Belgian columnist. 
Is Facebook too curious about its users’ data? A series of complaints initiated by an Austrian law student have led to a data protection audit in Ireland, where the social networking site’s European HQ is based. 
When a pro-Europe article brings in storms of angry comments for an editor at Die Zeit, he decides to stop in on one of his critics. Where does the rage against Brussels come from? The answer he finds is both surprising and alarming. 
As more and more sordid revelations emerge of British tabloid News of the World’s culture of phone-hacking, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator argues that the buck stops with PM David Cameron, who is personally implicated in press baron Rupert Murdoch’s social clique.
The mobile phone manufacturer is a source of national pride, but it's struggling to keep pace with the competition. This highlights a technology gap that that has become a handicap for the entire country. 
The EU plan to pass an internet privacy law enshrining the “right to disappear” online will dramatically affect how companies like Facebook conduct business, and raises questions about freedom of expression on the web. 
Hungary, the black sheep of Europe in matters of freedom of the press? By no means, says Austria’s Der Standard. There’s hardly a single country in which the powers that be don’t try to rein in the independent media. 
On 21 December, Prime minister Viktor Orbán pushed a bill through parliament restricting press freedoms. As Hungary prepares to take the EU’s presidency, why is no-one in Europe talking about this? wonders Gazeta Wyborcza columnist Jacek Pawlicki. 
A self-funded group of former EU officials and NGO, media and PR-sector workers based in Belgium has set up an EU version of WikiLeaks, in what is just one of several copycat sites springing up since Cablegate began. 
Sober and incisive, "Vieni via con me" co-presented by anti-Mafia writer, Roberto Saviano, has set new ratings records in the land of Berlusconi. In the run-up to the last programme of the four episode series scheduled for 29 November, Italian television guru, Carlo Freccero, analyses the reasons for its success.