{"id":7523,"date":"2026-03-01T21:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:41:28","slug":"spains-foreign-ministry-under-fire-over-press-freedom-and-centralisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/01\/spains-foreign-ministry-under-fire-over-press-freedom-and-centralisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s foreign ministry under fire over press freedom and centralisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spain&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is facing growing criticism for its increasing centralisation and restrictions on press access since Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares took office. Journalists have condemned what they see as a &#8220;law of silence&#8221; within the ministry, with accusations of blacklists, limited access to diplomats, and opaque briefings. This controversy intensified after Albares was accused of barring a journalist from the ministry. Critics, including diplomats, claim that the ministry&#8217;s communication strategy is undermining transparency, weakening Spain\u2019s diplomatic effectiveness, and fostering an atmosphere of fear. In response, the ministry denied the accusations, calling them &#8220;hoaxes,&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 10, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/news\/spains-foreign-ministry-under-fire-over-press-freedom-and-centralisation\/\">euractiv.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is facing growing criticism for its increasing centralisation and restrictions on press access since Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares took office. Journalists have condemned what they see as a &#8220;law of silence&#8221; within the ministry, with accusations of blacklists, limited access to diplomats, and opaque briefings. This controversy intensified after Albares was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7918,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/7918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}