Sava Mirković | 20 August 2024

Conceived as an alternative to EU cooperation, the Open Balkan initiative, promoted by Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia, aimed to create a regional common market to allow the free movement of goods, services, capital and people. The reasons for its failure

Media Freedom in the Western Balkans: Challenges in the Framework of EU Enlargement

As political interference and threats to journalists grow, the EU's new legislative measures, including the anti-SLAPP directive and the European Media Freedom Act, aim to safeguard press freedom in member and candidate countries. A recent webinar highlighted the struggle for media independence in Albania and Serbia amid their EU accession efforts

 

Serbia: submerged by waste

In Serbia, every citizen produces an average of one kilo of waste per day. Most end up in illegal or unregulated landfills, with an uncontrolled production of methane in the atmosphere. Everyone must, and can, do their part. A video report

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Serbian judge’s lawsuits set to chill press freedom
15/10/2024 - The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) expresses grave concern regarding the legal threats facing the Serbian inves...
SafeJournalists network, MFRR partners, and Coalition for Media Freedom condemn continuing pressures and attacks on journalists in Serbia
31/5/2024 - The SafeJournalists network, Media Freedom Rapid Response partners, and Coalition for Media Freedom condemn the grow...
Safety and justice: demanding accountability for attacks against journalists in Serbia
11/4/2024 - Media freedom advocates condemn 25 years of impunity for journalist Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder, shot in front of his h...
Serbia: escalating threats and attacks against journalists in Novi Sad
21/3/2024 - OBCT shares media freedom partner organisations' concerns on the the escalation of threats and violence suffered by...