Jean-Paul Marthoz

Jean-Paul Marthoz is the EU correspondent of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a foreign affairs columnist with Le Soir (Brussels) and author of the CPJ report, Balancing Act: Press freedom at risk as EU struggles to match action with values

Commercial interference in the European media

Many people feel journalists “are not really able to resist pressures from financial interests”. Jean-Paul Marthoz considers the problem.

By Jean-Paul Marthoz

/ 29 Mar 2018

The EU's nerve-wracking disconnect on surveillance

Each time an EU government is confronted with a threat to security, it nearly always plunges into knee-jerk reactions at the risk of undermining the very freedoms its officials claim to protect.

By Jean-Paul Marthoz

/ 27 Oct 2015

Erdogan against a European Turkey?

Why did Erdogan miss his historic opportunity? Inadvertently? Due to exasperation? Or because, more consequentially, he does not identify with those 'European values' that would force him to respect a country that cannot be reduced to its Sunni, Turkish, conservative majority?

By Jean-Paul Marthoz

/ 26 Jun 2013