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Belgium (Flanders): Freelancers can rely on both existing and new measures depending on the situation of the freelancer. When the freelancer’s got ill, he or she’s granted a daily amount from day one as soon as he or she is ill for a period of 7 days (measure from 2019). When a freelancer’s not ill but has no income anymore which is the case for sports and art journalists for instance, he or she is entitled to a monthly allowance from the first day of no activity. The monthly payment amounts to 1.614,10€ when you have a family and 1.291,69€ when you don’t. In order to get it, you should just reach out to your social security fund. Other measures taken by the government are: exemption or postponement of the payment of social security contributions for one year for the first two quarters of 2020. Also, selfemployed workers can be [...]

L-IĠM jappella lill-Gvern biex jassigura li l-ħaddiema kollha fil-qasam tal-ġurnaliżmu, inkluż il-freelancers, igawdu mill-miżuri finanzjarji u biex il-ġurnaliżmu jkun protett. Meta l-parti l-kbira tal-postijiet tax-xogħol huma magħluqa minħabba x-“shutdown parzjali”, ordnat mill-awtoritajiet tas-saħħa, r-reklamar fil-gazzetti u l-mezzi tax-xandir qed jonqos b’mod drastiku. Barra minn dan, minħabba li ħafna nies qed jobdu l-ordnijiet u rrakkomandazzjonijiet u jibqgħu d-dar, anke l-bejgħ tal-ġurnali naqas. Dan se jfisser nuqqas ta’ dħul għal media houses li jimpjegaw magħhom ġurnalisti u għalhekk l-impjieg jew id-dħul tal-ġurnalisti tagħna jinsab fil-periklu. Fil-familja ġurnalistika, għandna numru ta’ ġurnalisti u fotografi/camerapersons li huma freelancers, jaħdmu għal rashom, li d-dħul tagħhom diġa’ naqas drastikament għax ix-xogħol tagħhom naqas billi per eżempju, bħalissa ma huma organizzati ebda attivitajiet sportivi, soċjali jew attivitajiet tal-massa li minnhom jiddependi ħafna mid-dħul ta’ dawn il-ġurnalisti. Xogħol il-ġurnalist hu wieħed essenzjali f’soċjetà demokratika. Mingħajr il-ħidma talġurnalisti, l-poplu ma jistax jinżamm infurmat dwar dak li qed iseħħ fil-pajjiż. [...]

The Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) Media Working Group, which was founded in January 2019 in Lausanne during the General Assembly of AIPS, held its second meeting in the occasion of the 2020 AIPS Congress in Budapest, Hungary. One of the main aims of this group is to facilitate and provide modern and adequate conditions for journalists during the bi-annual GSSE, a multi-sport event in which nine European countries of a population under one million participate on a regular basis. During the meeting held in Budapest Malta Sports Journalists President Sandro Micallef was appointed as Chairman of this group with his counterparts in Cyprus, Erodotos Miltiadous and in San Marino Elia Gorini assisting with the coordination of this group. The latest edition of the GSSE took place in 2019 in Montenegro. It was the first time the Balkan country hosted the Games, after joining the GSSE family [...]

Eight Ball Pool player Dejan Grech has been declared as the the Atlas Youth Athlete of the month following his achievement in the European Eight Ball Pool Championship 2020 held in Malta last month. This is the second award being awarded to a local youth athlete following the launch of this initiative by Atlas Insurance in collaboration with the Malta Sports Journalists Association. Dejan Grech was the most successful Maltese player in the 2020 European Eight Ball Poll Championship where he was crowned European Champion in the Under 23 category. In the final he managed to beat Irish player Thomas Morgan 7 frames to 3. Grech’s experience in this international event will be one to be remembered also for the fact that along with the Malta Under 23 team he managed to reach the final against Team Ireland with the Irish counterparts this time claiming the honor. Dejan Grech’s superb form in [...]