Liviu Dragnea, the leader of Socialist Democratic Party in Romania was in the past accused for trying to break freedom of speech by proposing a law to punish “public defamation”. The project didn’t pass. However, just before the recent elections, the same politician had a breakthrough with another law which was voted by the Parliament. The debate in Romania.
Association for the Media, the Ethics Council and the Macedonian Institute for Media, assessed that through financing political programs paid at high cost , the government turned media into a spinnning tool
Media lynchings, physical assaults, threats. This is what investigative journalists face in Vučić's Serbia. An interview with Branko Čečen, director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS)
Media lynchings, physical assaults, threats. This is what investigative journalists face in Vučić's Serbia. An interview with Branko Čečen, director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS).
The article analizes some statements of the new Minister of Culture Mrs Nina Obuljen Koržinek, that Subventional program for Non-for Profit Media, that was holded up by her predecessor, Minister Zlatko Hasanbegović, has been „in clumsiness“ with the State Grants Act. Conversation with non-for-profit associations low expert Mrs Vesna Lendić Kasalo, who is engaged as the head-master deputy of the the Governmental Associations' Office, shows that the Subventional program wasn't in disproportion with that Act, but the question is – are all the other main subventional programs that finance media work, (conducted by the Cultural Ministry, Electronic Media Council and the Zagreb City Mayor) realy accorded with the same Act.
An interview with the media inspector in Slovenia, Sandra Vesel: the limited capacities of the inspectorate; the deficiencies in Media law; the regulation of adverstising.
