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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.
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.
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