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  By Maja Sever, EFJ President   Something remarkable happened at the Voices Festival in Zagreb. Young journalists took over the microphones, cameras, social media, and stage, proving that a...

Journalists and media staff in Nis on Monday rejected Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s apology to a state TV (RTS) reporter and are refusing to cover any of his events.  ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic apologized to the public and the state TV (RTS) for calling an RTS journalist reporting on Saturday’s student protest in Nis an imbecile but implied that...

Voices Festival 2025, held in Zagreb from 27 February to 1 March, was a time for celebration and reflection but also an opportunity to express solidarity with journalists deprived of...

European social partners in the audiovisual sector published their Framework of Actions on diversity and inclusion, on 26 February 2025. The document puts forward recommendations for actions by employers’ and...

Emboldened by Donald Trump’s toxic rhetoric and freezing of US foreign aid, the pressure exerted by the Serbian government on the media has reached a level not seen since the...

Responding to Cellebrite’s announcement that it will stop the use of its digital forensic equipment for some of their customers in Serbia, following Amnesty International’s report on the misuse of...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined the undersigned international media freedom and journalist groups today in raising concerns over a planned “political neutrality” audit recently approved by the supervisory...

The Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) said Wednesday that, after 28 hours, the police left its office, taking with them copies of over 8,500 pages of project documentation....

Freedom House said in its latest report that the Serbian authorities have undermined the media.   “Serbia under the leadership of President Aleksandar Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)...

Azerbaijan is continuing its repression by arresting more journalists and creating an environment in which media that are not aligned with the government cannot operate untroubled. The European and International...

The European and the International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) join their Ukrainian affiliates, in condemning the killing of Ukrainian journalist Tetiana Kulyk, a member of the National Union of Journalists...