(sportspress.lu / 15.03.2018) The national sportspress associations of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland met at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on March 13 and 14.
These twelve countries jointly decided in the autumn of 2017 that they would not attend the 2018 AIPS Congress then scheduled to be held in Antalya, Turkey given the current climate in that country regarding freedom of the press.