"Amid a global decline in press freedom in 2012, the economic crisis in the European Union saw the development of an "increasingly hostile" environment for journalists in Greece and led to a wider sense that the media could not fulfil its vital role in holding authority to account, a new report said. The annual study, published by the non-profit United States-based organisation Freedom House, found that there was a "pattern in which the percentage of people worldwide who enjoy a free media environment fell to its lowest point in more than a decade". (Quoted from article)