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UNS: In the first five months of this year, 17 cases of threats against journalists were recorded, which is an increase compared to last year.
The Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) has recorded 74 cases of threats against journalists from the beginning of the year to date, which is 17 more than in the same period last year.
Mirković: The selection of the new REM is motivated by the government's desire to open Cluster 3 and secure funding from the Growth Plan.
It would be good for REM to be the first or one of the few independent institutions that functions properly in abnormal circumstances, but the authorities want things to remain the same, believes Professor Aleksandra Krstić from the Faculty of Political Sciences, while Saša Mirković from ANEM thinks that the election of a new REM Council is motivated by the government’s desire to open Cluster 3 and receive funds from the Growth Plan.
SĆF: The Committee for Culture and Information suspends its own interpretation of the law.
In a scandalous vote at today's meeting of the Committee for Culture and Information, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, the Share Foundation, and the Center for Democracy Foundation were restored to the status of authorized proposers of the REM Council, despite the Committee's earlier interpretation of the law, which stated that only citizen associations, and not organizations registered in the Registry of Endowments and Foundations, could hold this status.
Published biographies of 46 candidates for members of the REM Council.
The official website of the Assembly of Serbia has published the biographies of 46 candidates for members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) Council. The next step is for all authorized proposers of candidates for members of the REM Council from nine groups to meet in order to agree on two joint candidates from each group. Following that, a public hearing will be organized by the Committee for Culture and Information, during which 18 candidates for members of the REM Council will be presented. Subsequently, the list of these candidates will be submitted to the Assembly of Serbia, which will elect nine candidates in a plenary session.
Adopted list of proposing organizations and candidates for members of the REM Council.
The Committee of the Assembly of Serbia for Culture and Information today approved the list of proposing organizations and candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), who supplemented their documentation by midnight on June 5th.
NUNS submitted objections regarding the selection of members of the REM Council.
The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) today submitted complaints to the Committee for Culture and Information of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia regarding the process of electing members of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media. The complaints concern the failure to meet the requirements for proposers by the associations of the Journalists' Association of Vojvodina, the Journalists' Association of Niš, and the Professional Association of Journalists of Serbia (PROUNS). NUNS also raised an objection to the inclusion of Nada Vujović on the candidate list, who was proposed by the aforementioned associations.
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.
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