Nedim Sejdinovic

After the pro-government Serbian tabloid Informer again attacked BIRN project coordinator Slobodan Georgiev - calling him one of those "paid by the EU" to cause "chaos" in Serbia - journalists say such attacks are probably intended to pressurize donors to stop financing them.

The head of an independent journalists union in Serbia has told Balkan Insight that the recent decision to sack the program director for the TV station in the country's northern proivince was politically motivated.