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The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) expresses serious concern regarding the decision of the City of Novi Pazar to allocate the majority of funds this year in the competition for co-financing public interest in the field of public information to Radio Television Novi Pazar, thereby continuing the years-long practice of selective and unjustified distribution of funds to a single media outlet.

The Public Interest demands that the City Administration for Social Activities of the city of Kragujevac immediately publish the scoring list along with the criteria and justification for the assessment of each individual project in the competition for co-financing media content of public interest.

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.