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Brussels – \u00a0The Association de la Presse Internationale \u2013 International Press Association (API-IPA) marks its 50th anniversary on Thursday 10 July, celebrating five decades of supporting journalists in Brussels.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We honor 50 years of API\u2019s volunteer-driven efforts to defend correspondents\u2019 interests,\u201d said Dafydd ab Iago, API-IPA president. \u201cBrussels is kinder to journalists than places like Hungary, Slovakia. We’re so much safer here than in Gaza \u2014 where nearly 200 media colleagues have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023. But challenges remain, even in Brussels.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Since 1975, API has expanded to represent 400 members among 1,200 EU-accredited media professionals in Brussels, including audiovisual teams. Much of what API does is discreet. API has supported thousands of colleagues through the various accreditation procedures. Till today, API\u2019s focus as the representative organisation of Brussels based correspondents, has remained squarely upon ensuring colleagues are able to report unhindered and get meaningful answers from the EU, NATO and Belgian authorities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome mutter: ‘API is always complaining’. And they\u2019re right. But that\u2019s our job,\u201d said ab Iago.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, API raised concerns about bureaucratic overreach and misinterpretation of EU sanctions, with one member journalist expelled from Belgium. “Likewise, another member faces potential expulsion next month, due to this misinterpretation of press accreditation. Brussels isn\u2019t perfect,\u201d ab Iago said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cColleagues have also faced legal threats for reporting on matters like alleged corruption and evasion of EU sanctions; however, reporters outside Brussels have faced worse fates. Reporting on such matters, also in connection to EU funds, led to the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta and J\u00e1n Kuciak in Slovakia.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

API also fosters our professional community through actions such as helping incoming journalists to accredit as well as newcomer briefings. API Hours were launched in 2012, with a notable interview with former Commissioner John Dalli. API Hours have been going strong to this today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the next 50 years, API will ensure the continued presence of trusted journalists, physically reporting from Brussels on the EU, NATO, and Belgium. \u201cThat’s not given with ever greater media-consolidation, shrinking newsrooms, disinformation and growing AI impact on journalism,\u201d ab Iago said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Founded in 1975, represents EU, NATO and Belgium accredited members of the Brussels press corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30808,25708],"tags":[30616,31735,31733,31734],"class_list":["post-432191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-en","category-news-en","tag-api-en","tag-brussels-en","tag-correspondent","tag-ipa-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432197,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432191\/revisions\/432197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}