{"id":71785,"date":"2025-05-03T18:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71785\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:08:15","slug":"greece-ranks-lowest-in-eu-for-press-freedom-for-fourth-consecutive-year-says-rsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71785\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece ranks lowest in EU for press freedom for fourth consecutive year, says RSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Press Freedom Index<\/a> on Friday, with Greece once again recording the worst performance among European Union member states \u2013 ranking 89th out of 180 countries. This marks a one-place drop from its position in the 2024 index.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Greece, press freedom is really stifled by the impunity of crimes committed against journalists,\u201d said Pavol Szalai, the head of the EU-Balkans office at RSF, referencing the 2021 murder of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz. \u201cThere has been a trial and the accused were acquitted,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has also been the biggest surveillance of journalists in the EU. In Greece, more than 10 media professionals were targeted by Predator spyware, which gave its name to the now-famous Predatorgate affair,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The top 15 countries in the index were all in Europe, with Norway ranking first, followed by Estonia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual World Press Freedom Index on Friday, with Greece once again recording&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1491,2452,285,2963,4678],"class_list":{"0":"post-71785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-in-depth","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-report","15":"tag-society"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114445241754608534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}