A strike in on at Media Print Macedonia, the company that owns three newspapers "Dnevnik", "Utrinski Vesnik" and "Vest." The employees are demanding to receive their salaries.
In theory, Serbia would have one of the best laws in the world guaranteeing public access to information. The only problem is that the State violate its own laws.
Representatives of Journalists and of media association assessed on 2 February that the case law in disputes with media is unequal, the procedures are automatized and unified and that judges are not committed on cases regarding media.
Every third institution in Bulgaria does not publish on the Internet the regulatory acts it issues, and half of them do not do this in relation to the general administrative acts.
Public companies often do not respect the Law on Free Access to Information, and some institutions even after court rulings do not provide the documents requested.
Montenegrin Law on free access to information is adopted seven years ago, but experiences from journalists and NGOs are showing that it is still very hard to obtain data that is of public interest.
According to „Freedom House“, Macedonia remains nailed in the group of partly free countries with no improvement. "Freedom House" states that the situation in the Balkans has worsened in terms of electoral processes and the rule of law.
