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Selection of Council Members of REM: New Process, Old Farce
No surprises here: the start of the repeated process for the election of members of the REM Council has provided more reasons to assess that the authorities will not allow a loss of control over the media, rather than hope that Serbia, in accordance with the promises made to Western officials, could, even after the legal deadline, obtain a truly independent Regulatory Body for Electronic Media.
The Municipality of Golubac holds the record for the lowest amount of funding for media projects.
The municipality of Golubac allocated the least amount of money for projects in this year's competitions, only 100,000 dinars. The minimum amount that can be awarded per project is 20,000 dinars, while the maximum is 50,000 dinars.
Civil and SĆF: The conditions for the Committee to decide on the candidates for members of REM and the proposers have not been met.
Civic initiatives and the "Slavko Ćuruvija" Foundation today addressed the Culture and Information Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia with a request to halt the process of determining the final list of candidates and proposers for members of the REM Council until numerous irregularities are resolved.
Released from custody, Darko Gligorijević, a journalist who reported from the Student City.
The Zoomer journalist Darko Gligorijević has been released from the police station in New Belgrade.
Stevanović on the elections for the REM Council: The previous one was terrible, this one is even worse.
The process of selecting members of the REM Council is scandalous – the previous one was terrible, and this one is even worse, says Ivana Stevanović from the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, adding that it seems to her that we will end up with a REM that is the same or worse than before. She also adds that REM is one of the levers of power and that it was difficult to expect that it would be relinquished.
The Zoomer journalist has been placed in police custody for "shouting and causing a commotion" during the incident in the Student City.
A Zoomer journalist has been placed under police detention today on suspicion of violating Article 7 of the Law on Public Order and Peace during last night's incident in the Students' City, when student Miloš Pavlović was attacked, announced this youth portal.
Adopted proposals for amendments and supplements to two media laws.
The Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Proposal for the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Public Media Services at today's session. The aim of these amendments is to improve the operation of public media services, ensure greater accountability to users, and stabilize funding.
For the new "Niš TV," the Ministry of Information “has not heard,” and the city Attorney's Office is waiting for the Assembly to respond.
New Niš TV, although without the necessary approval from the REM and the consent of the Niš Assembly to use the city's name, continues to broadcast its program. The city’s Attorney General's Office states that they have received a request regarding the name of the television station, but their response, if there will be one, will have to wait for prior confirmation from the Niš Parliament and their order for any measures to be taken. How it is possible to broadcast without a permit is unclear even to the Ministry of Information, as they claim to have "no knowledge" of a new television station being established in Niš, even though the president of the country, who was also the first guest, is aware of it.
GMINFO has once again declined funding for project co-financing this year.
The gminfo portal has rejected the funds allocated this year through the competition for co-financing projects for the production of media content in the field of public information for the year 2025, which was announced by the municipality of Gornji Milanovac.
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