The Secretary General of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Aidan White, has said that Belgium's poor legal protection for journalists makes it "quite inappropriate" for it to host the EU institutions.
Speaking at a conference in Brussels today, (2 April) Mr White said, "the very thing we have to demand here, in Belgium, is the highest possible standards of freedom for journalists to do their work".
"It seems to me", he added, "that for Belgium to be one of the ...
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