Entries by Jasna Gerbec

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“If there are no reports on government corruption, it doesn’t exist, right?”

On Wednesday, 18 January 2023, MEP Irena Joveva (Renew Europe/Gibanje Svoboda) addressed the European Parliament during the plenary debate on the situation of journalists in Morocco. She highlighted the state of affairs regarding journalism in Morocco, where the Moroccan government is clamping down on journalists and silencing voices that report on government corruption. “If there […]

“I’m happy to be part of your stories”

On Thursday, 12 January 2023, MEP Irena Joveva took part in a voluntary Slovenian language teaching activity at Slovenian Philanthropy. The participants were mostly from Ukraine. The MEP expressed her pleasure to have been given the opportunity to participate in a project that supports integration into a new environment. “I am happy to be part […]

“Not another toothless tiger”

During the interactive debate on media freedom (Medijska svoboda? Bo, da!), , which was hosted by MEP Irena Joveva in early December 2022, young people discussed the upcoming European Media Freedom Act. The workshop critically discussed the current state of the media in the European Union and the measures proposed by the Act, and offered […]

“The pandemic, Youth, and Europe: How to prevent a lost generation?”

On Wednesday, 7 April 2021, MEP Irena Joveva participated in the online debate “The Pandemic, Youth, and Europe: how to prevent a lost generation?” organized by the European Parliamentary Association. In their discussion, young Europeans focused on preventing long-term mass youth unemployment and filling the skills gap that will result from the disruption of the […]

MEP Joveva tells El Confidencial: “If we don’t stop this, Slovenia could be like Hungary or Poland in a year”

El Confidencial, a Spanish newspaper and website specializing in economic, financial, and political news, has published an interview with MEP Irena Joveva. Below you can find summary of the discussion: Irena Joveva was a journalist for eight years, so she knows and understands very well the campaign against the freedom of the press that the […]

If the media freedom falls, so does democracy. If democracy falls, freedom is the next in line.

In the spirit of the conference on the future of Europe, the Europe Direct Koroška Information Centre organized a literary-political discussion on the current perception of the socio-political situation in Europe among the inhabitants of the Koroška region. The discussion was organized based on a literary competition held from February to September 2020. The virtual […]