European Parliament to launch investigative journalism prize named after Daphne Caruana Galizia

The European Parliament is to launch a prize for investigative journalism in memory of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

The Bureau of the European Parliament, which is responsible for matters relating to the body’s internal workings, approved a proposal to create the prize more than two years after it was first mooted.

The prize will honour European investigative journalists for their work and promote media freedom and freedom of expression.

The Plenary of the European Parliament first approved a resolution calling for a prize to be set up in Caruana Galizia’s memory less than a month after her death, but the proposal was only approved by the Bureau this wek.

The European Parliament’s Bureau Working Group on Information and Communication Policy will now define the rules of the prize to be formally approved.

The creation of the prize follows a decision to rename the European Parliament’s press room in Strasbourg after Caruana Galizia.