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The occupied Pioneer Park in Belgrade and the area on the street in front of the National Assembly of Serbia, judging by the number of attacks on journalists and the obstruction of their work, seem to have become a "forbidden city."

For two weeks in April, there was a student blockade of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) with a specific demand – the announcement of a competition for the selection of members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).

The competition for the program director and editor of Radio-Television Vojvodina (RTV) has concluded, and the list of applicants for these positions has been published.

The OSCE Mission in Serbia announced today that it has launched a new round of research on the mental health of journalists, and its findings and recommendations will be used to define activities and projects aimed at providing journalists with better working conditions.

"I believe that the new process for selecting members of the REM Council will not be any better than the previous one. We have already had a situation where, at the first meeting of the Culture and Information Committee, a conclusion was reached to terminate the previous process and start a new one, with the statement in the conclusion— that seven candidates withdrew their candidacies, but it does not specify why," said Željko Hubač, a former candidate for a member of the REM Council, to N1.

The Ambassador of the European Union in Serbia, Emanuel Žiofre, welcomed the announcement of a new call for the nomination of candidates for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications today called upon all social actors, citizens, the media, the academic community, and political and institutional representatives to exercise responsibility, restraint, and engage in constructive dialogue in order to preserve social stability, democratic values, and the uninterrupted functioning of institutions.

The Committee of the Assembly of Serbia for Culture and Information published a Public Call this morning, May 8, for proposing candidates for the election of members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) in the newspaper Politika.

In the lead-up to World Press Freedom Day, the state of media freedom in Serbia is described as alarming, according to a report by the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) platform, which was prepared following a support mission in Serbia. The report states that in recent months, pressures and attacks on media workers have reached levels not seen in decades, threatening independent and investigative journalism and deepening the long-standing crisis of media freedom.