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The Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AJK) has been criticizing Prime Minister Edi Rama for saying that Kosovo media platforms T7 and Gazeta Express were spreading “chauvinist hatred against Albania”. He also accused the media of waging a “ferocious invasion of the public communications space that, with its vulgarity, defamation and shortsightedness, has begun to damage Kosovo itself.”
Surveillance scandal in Serbia emerged after a statement by Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin on a never-published opinion piece by former defence minister Dragan Sutanovac.
Reporters without Borders (ROG) condemns Bulgarian authorities for trying to intimidate journalists.
Romanian journalists are against the new law on tax relief for media representatives voted by the Parliament.
The first self-regulation mechanism for journalistic ethics in Albania has been created.
Venelin Petkov, the Head of News at private channel bTV, said that he intends to sue Valeri Simeonov, the leader of the right-wing United Patriots party.
The Montenegrin media regulator, the Council of the Agency for Electronic Media (SAEM), limited the re-broadcasting of content from TV Happy and TV Pink M for a period of three months for discrimination of Montenegrins.
Two studies published which present to different results on how Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic is pictured in the media.
Since mid-January there is public dispute between the two telecommunication companies Telekom Serbia and United Group.
Sofia City Court has confirmed the Sofia Regional Court’s sentencing of Rossen Bossev, a journalist at Capital Weekly and member of the Executive Board of the Association of European Journalists in Bulgaria, AEJ-Bulgaria, to a fine of 1,000 BGN [500 euros] in a defamation case filed by Stoyan Mavrodiev, a former chairman of the Financial Supervision Commission, FSC, а government body in charge of ensuring the stability of the banking system, and current director of the Bulgarian Development Bank.
