(Brussels) “Today it’s been one year since the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Today we honour the hard work and inexorability of Daphne, Jan Kuciak and many other journalists who sacrifice all they have – sometimes even their lives – to find the truth”. This is written in a joint statement issued in Brussels by the first deputy president of the EU Commission, Timmermans, by the deputy president Ansip and by commissioners Jourová and Gabriel, one year after the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. “Today is also an opportunity for Europe to stop and think about what we care for: our right to speak freely. The EU Commission is firmly determined to protect freedom of speech and freedom of the media. Democracy cannot survive if journalists can no longer report freely, if they are censored, if they are prevented from denouncing the powers, and especially if they are intimidated, harassed, threatened and sometimes even killed just for having done their job”. The statement also says that “the people responsible for such murders must be consigned to justice. We want the full truth. We must send a clear message to all journalists: working in Europe is safe. If journalists are hushed up, democracy is too. This will not happen in Europe”.