Press freedom slides in eastern Europe

Press freedom has declined over the past year in the majority of countries where the EBRD invests, according to the global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RWB). The media monitor’s annual Press Freedom Index, published last week, also showed that standards had slipped generally in many European countries which should, it claimed, be setting an example for newer democracies.

Of the EBRD’s 29 countries of operations, only nine showed…

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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development(EBRD) uses the tools of investment to help build market economies and democracies in countries from central Europe to central Asia (read more).