In the field of anti-corruption cites the Commission that in Malta the investigation into the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has exposed serious patterns of corruption.
Concerning the independence from the media, the politicization of media regulators raises eyebrows in some countries, for example in Hungary, Malta and Poland. Freedom of the press is also regularly at stake in Spain. In countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, Luxembourg, Romania and Slovenia, the functioning of the regulators threatens to be hampered by a lack of funding.
In Belgium, the Flemish Association of Journalists gets good marks for its reporting point for physical and verbal aggression towards journalists.
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