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Press freedom at lowest level in 25 years amid growing authoritarian pressure

rights of the free press. RSF said press freedom had been declining over the 25-year period its index covered. It found declines in many democratic countries, warning that journalism was being “increasingly criminalised

French film industry at risk from the far right, say actors and directors

authoritarianism everywhere in culture and the media,” the authors wrote. In the film industry, where Bolloré has long dominated private production, cinema insiders said they had been emboldened to speak out after the publishing revolt

I’ve covered Trump for a decade. At the White House correspondents’ dinner, darkness came viscerally close

right now. Secret Service agents raced through the room, wielding weapons. There was an eerie silence. By the time I rose to look at the dais, Donald and Melania Trump had already been rushed away

Hungary’s voters shunned Orbán – but it may be too early to celebrate end of Europe’s far right

authoritarian and corrupt governments”. Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, also believes the two-thirds majority secured by Orbán’s centre-right challenger, [Péter Magyar](https://www.theguardian.com/world/peter-magyar), in Sunday’s elections was “a clear signal