Press freedom under attack inside EU, advocates say http://euobserver.com/news/118109
"It is not good enough to invoke bureaucratic difficulties - be they legal powers in the sense of a specific legislation - to justify the lack of willingness of the commission [to speak out]," said Weber.The protection of sources and the protection against defamation claims by public figures are among some of the standards that are not being wholly respected.William Horsley of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) pointed out that reporters are routinely intimidated, receive threats of violence by police and suffer arbitrary arrests in countries such as Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and in soon-to-join-the-EU Croatia.Bulgarian journalist Yavor Dachkov, who co-edits the Galeria newspaper in Sofia, told this website in July that a bomb exploded in front of his office soon after they published a phone call in January 2011 that allegedly incriminates Bulgaria's Prime Minister Borisov in a scandal involving a national beer company."It was close to taking the life of one of our colleagues," wrote Dachkov in a letter addressed to European Parliament president Martin Schulz.Meanwhile, concentrated ownership of media outlets in the hands of the few has created its own sets of problems.Owners of some media outlets in Romania and Bulgaria have links to organised crime, said the AEJ's Horsely: "This is corrupting the free flow of information within the borders of the European Union to an extent that EU lawmakers should understand and act on."He added that the commission and the parliament have known about the extent of abuse and press freedom violations for some time but "have clearly not acted."

[ed notes;see how zionist bulgarian pm who's in bed with israhell likudniks uses bombings to target those who expose him?where is western zionist media on that?i btw refuse to post reporters without borders and open society foundations statements on issue,though likely true i refuse to endorse their hijacking of issue,as they themselevs are conduits of the same system they are supposedly exposing... EU: "Unaccountable Europe" by Tony Bunyan (Statewatch editor) in Special issue of Index on Censorship: "Big Brother Goes Global" (December 2005)