AIPCE was established in 1999 and has met each year since then – in Germany, Ireland, Malta, Sweden, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Bulgaria.
The most recent conference, held in September 2007, took place in the UK, in Edinburgh. Click here for full event details.
A statement of aims, drawn up at the Alliance’s foundation, sets out the core beliefs of the participating organisations:
- that the regulation of editorial content in the media should be independent of government;
- that media content regulation, whether national or regional in its coverage, should be based on nations’ differing cultures;
- that the writing of Codes of journalistic ethics and their administration is the business of journalists and publishers, who take into account public feelings, and not the business of governments;
- that it is not possible to operate a universal Code of ethics, and that the imposition of supra national Codes and regulatory organisations, either at the European or global level, should be opposed.
Members of AIPCE maintain close contact with pan-European organisations such as the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the OSCE.
AIPCE includes Press Councils from the following countries...