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Alexander Schallenberg has been Federal Minister for European and International Affairs in the second Sebastian Kurz government since January 2020. He previously served as a diplomat at the Austrian EU Representation in Brussels and later was the press spokesman for Foreign Ministers Ursula Plassnik
PRESS FREEDOM
Press freedom has deteriorated in the face of a global pandemic, journalists share on World Press Freedom Day
ICIJ members in every region told of rising attacks, intimidation, government pressure, restrictions, lawsuits and penalties in the past year, as well as concerns arising from changes in media ownership. May 3, 2021 A journalist wears a T-shirt with an image of Malaysian news site Malaysiakini’s editor-in-chief Steven Gan at the Federal Court in Putrajaya on July 13, 2020, as the site faces contempt of court proceedings.
Journalism has not been spared in the global turmoil of the past 12 months, according to the latest press freedom index from Reporters Without Borders.
A nuclear reactor in an earthquake zone
NEW EUROPE
President of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) and former European Editor of the Profil news magazine in Austria , 12 Mar 21, Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an old power plant in Slovenia is about to be allowed to run till 2043. Austrian politicians and environmental organizations want to prevent that.The Slovenian nuclear power plant in Krsko actually should be decommissioned in two years. The reactor, built 40 years ago in the old Communist-era Yugoslavia with technology from the American company Westinghouse – has reached the end of its life. Nevertheless, the Slovenian-Croatian operating company,