Accredited journalists are cordially invited to join the award ceremony, which will be opened by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola. The ten finalists have also been invited, and one of them will have been chosen by the Prize’s jury members as the 2025 winner.
Discover here the work of the 10 finalists.
Programme
18.00 Welcome by Vice-President Pina Picierno followed by opening speech by President Roberta Metsola
18.15 Speech by the President of the Berlin Press Club and member of the jury, Juliane Hielscher
18.30 Announcement of the 2025 winner by the President of the International Press Association and member of the jury, Dafydd Ab Iago, followed by speech by the winner
18.45 Photo opportunity
19.00 Reception at WEISS C 4.1
You can follow the event via webstreaming or by EbS.
Press seminar on “The Silencing of journalists’ voices around the world”
Before the award ceremony, Parliament’s press service is organising a seminar on the continued threats to media and press freedom, focusing on the dangers journalists are facing in the conflict in Gaza. Palestinian and Israeli journalists will explain their experience and Reporters without Borders will put context to this with some data.
The seminar will begin at 14:00 in room WEISS S 2.2, with an introduction by EP Vice-President Pina Picierno together with journalist and author Roberto Saviano. This year, finalists of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, will also pitch their reports to the audience.
The programme of the seminar can be found here.
Journalists who would like to join the seminar online, please write email to media-seminars@europarl.europa.eu stating the media you work for to get the interactio link. Webstreaming will be only published afterwards in a recorded version.
Background
The Prize is a tribute to the Maltese investigative journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated in October 2017. It rewards, on a yearly basis, outstanding journalism that promotes or defends the core principles and values of the European Union, such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights.
The Prize is open to professional journalists and teams of professional journalists of any nationality to submit in-depth stories that have been published or broadcast by a media outlet based in one of the 27 European Union member states. From 21 May to 31 July 2025, more than 300 applications were submitted by journalists from the 27 EU countries for this fourth edition of the Prize.
The Prize itself, and the €20,000 prize money, demonstrate the European Parliament’s strong support for investigative journalism and the protection of journalists around the world.
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