The National Conference for Media Reform has it all: Award-winning artists. Hollywood luminaries. Visionary activists. Veteran journalists. D.C. heavyweights.  And European Alternatives! Organised by Free Press in Denver over April 3-8, the conference deals with today’s pressing media, democracy, and technology…

Parlement Européen PHS P7C050, 31 mai 2012 à 15 heures Teatro Valle, Rome, 2 juin 2012 à 16 heures Le 31 mai, la première Initiative Citoyenne Européenne sur le pluralisme des média sera lancée au Parlement européen, en présence d’une…

Background European Alternatives is a transnational citizens’ organisation active throughout Europe to promote democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. European Alternatives, together with the Alliance Internationale de Journalistes, has launched a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) on media pluralism.…

Making Water a Human Right The time has come for the first ever European Citizens’ Initiative to be heard by the European institutions having surpassed the ambitious one million signature threshold. The inaugural debate on a European Citizens Initiative was held for the…

European Parliament PHS P7C050, 3pm,  31 May 2012 Teatro Valle, Rome, 6pm, 2 June 2012 On May 31st the first European Citizens’ Initiative on media pluralism will be launched in the European Parliament by a coalition of civil society organisations, academic…

The fourth estate is tempting to many, perhaps to too many, and in several European countries there are multiple cases of editorial independence and information pluralism being threatened. Take note of Hungary who recently passed “a gag order” to regulate…

(Blank newspaper cover to protest media reforms- flickr-Lamarietta) European Alternatives calls on European leaders to condemn the threats to democracy and freedom in Hungary  and for the European Institutions to apply Article 7 of the Treaty of Lisbon to Hungary…