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Vijesti TV journalist Petar Komnenic has been banned from entering Serbia in what looks like a tit-for-tat response by official Belgrade to Podgorica’s ban on a pro-regime tabloid owner.  ...

The SafeJournalists Network strongly condemns the new death threats sent to Marko Vidojković, author of the show Dobar loš zao (DLZ) and columnist for the daily Danas, via the social...

Serbia has been identified as a high-risk country for media pluralism and media freedom, with an overall risk level of 74 percent, according to the Media Pluralism Monitor 2026 (MPM...

Despite robust legal frameworks, public institutions in the region are finding new ways to obstruct transparency, a new BIRN report finds.   Freedom of Information requests have increased throughout the...

On 6 July, journalists and media workers at the AFP Istanbul bureau will go on strike after management refused to accept their demands for fair wages during collective bargaining negotiations....

The Portuguese Journalists’ Union (Sindicato dos Jornalistas) today filed a complaint with the European Commission concerning the new statutes of LUSA, Portugal’s state-owned news agency, arguing that they violate European...

The High Court in Belgrade found that the students Lazar and Luka Stojaković suffered a violation of their honor, reputation and right to privacy due to the false reporting and...

His Excellency Jakov Milatović President of Montenegro Bulevar Svetog Petra Cetinjskog 12 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro   His Excellency Milojko Spajić Prime Minister of Montenegro Karađorđeva bb 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro  ...

“By their inaction and ignoring past abuses, Minister Boris Bratina and Assistant Minister Dragan Traparić made a key contribution to the disastrous results in this year’s distribution of state aid,”...

Serbian parliament speaker Ana Brnabic on Monday called for an interpretation of the Law on Electronic Media to resolve the stalemate with the country’s electronic media regulator.   The Council...

The Russian artist and cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in the street in eastern Poland, near the border with Belarus, on 15 June. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ)...

The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) has just published the Media Pluralism Monitor 2026 (#MPM2026), the most comprehensive EU-wide assessment of risks to media pluralism and press...