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To: Les H who wrote (49728)	12/22/2025 11:09:42 AM
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The Brief – Banned in Brussels: How Euractiv landed on the Commission’s enemies list Machiavelli insisted it was better to be feared than loved. In journalism it’s preferable to be neither, especially for those, like Euractiv, hoping to maintain their autonomy At the beginning of this year, we set about infusing the ‘EU Bubble’ with a heavy dose of critical journalism. Not all recipients reacted well, least of all the Commission, which recently banned us from its background briefings, the off-the-record sessions during which President Ursula von der Leyen’s advisers seek to steer the message they’re trying to send on any given issue to the press. It’s not a big loss, to be honest, but it reflects a broader atmosphere of hostility on the part of the Commission president’s office towards journalists who refuse to play by its rules. Our reporters have even been subjected to direct verbal abuse by the presidential entourage. What triggered it? Maybe it was our debunking of the legend pushed by the Commission that von der Leyen’s pilots were forced to resort to “paper maps” to land her plane in Bulgaria amid a purported Russian attack on its navigation system. Or was it that we lambasted her absurd plan for a European intelligence service? Or is simply that we’ve pointed out time and again that von der Leyen is unsuited for the role she’s been given. We may never have clarity. What we do know, however, is that we won’t abandon our journalistic integrity to get access, to be liked, to win a prized seat on the president’s plane. You won’t find us throwing champagne-fuelled galas to toast the politicians we cover either. The Brief – Banned in Brussels: How Euractiv landed on the Commission’s enemies list \| Euractiv