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Thursday 15th April 2021, 14:00 – 14:45 CEST (45 minutes)
Where there’s cross-border journalism, there’s the threat of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs). This panel discusses this growing menace, including a SLAPP suit filed in London against a Swedish news magazine.

CHAIR: Flutura Kusari (Legal Advisor at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom)

Maria Ordzhonikidze, (Director at the Justice for Journalists Foundation)

Per Agerman (Stockholm-based freelance journalist, writer for Realtid)

Viola von Cramon MEP (member of the Media Working Group at the European Parliament)