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NGO report says the number of attacks on journalists in Moldova grew by 20 per cent in 2020 compared to the year before, although most were non-physical in nature.
The Bureau of the Assembly of Albania has published a new regulation for the Accreditation, Accommodation and Orientation of Mass Media in the Parliament. This new regulation affects audiovisual media, print and online media.
Croatia’s Culture and Media Minister signed a Global Pledge on Media Freedom during a meeting with the UK’s undersecretary for European neighbourhood and the Americas in Zagreb.
Journalists will have a reduced access to the Albanian parliament starting from the next session in September, some journalists in the country have claimed.
Data analysed by BIRN shows that most Albanian broadcasters broke rules by allocating more airtime to the ruling Socialist Party in the run-up to April’s parliamentary election, but they escaped sanction.
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the filing of three criminal defamation suits against Bulgarian journalist Nickolay Stoyanov, and called on authorities to reform the country’s laws to decriminalize speech.
The print media in Serbia that most often violate the journalistic code of professional conduct continue to be the beneficiaries of public funding, warned an internal EU paper obtained by EURACTIV that painted a bleak picture of the EU candidate country’s democratic record.
Reports Without Borders have urged the ruling Socialist Party to wait until the newly-elected Parliament is convened in September before electing new members of the Audio-Visual Media Authority.
A string of unexplained attacks on the media are rocking the public in Montenegro.
National broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar 2 (RTSH2) has been fined €16,200 for broadcasting political advertisements on April 24, the day of election silence.
