Meeting in Paris on 29 October 2025 for the eighth Paris Peace Forum, 29 States endorsed a political declaration reaffirming their commitment to enhanced multilateral action for information integrity and independent media, in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, Ghanaian President John Mahama and Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
On the same day, true to its commitment to press freedom and an honest, free and regulated information space, France announced the renewal of its support for the International Fund For Public Interest Media (IFPIM) for the next three years. The Fund has already supported more than 100 media organizations in 30 countries.
The Paris Declaration on Multilateral Action for Information Integrity and Independent Media forms part of the High-level International Conference on Information Integrity and Independent Media, opened by M. Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Co-organized by the International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) and the Forum on Information and Democracy (FID), the event brought together a coalition of 31 representatives of States and international organizations.
In an international context marked by the return of war to Europe, where trust in the media is being eroded and the information space is saturated with fake news, the text is a joint response to attempts to polarize.
With a strategy to fight disinformation, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has helped train more than 2,000 journalists to counter information manipulation more effectively and has supported the creation of two hubs, in Paris and Bucharest, for hosting around 100 exiled journalists.
