Journalism

The EC will invest in new initiatives to support independent journalism, sustainable media companies and incentivize cooperation among public broadcasters.

This was announced at a EU-Western Balkan Media Days conference in Tirana according to a Nov. 10 European Commission press release, Beta repoerted.

Documents from the so-called Paradise Papers, leaked last year, show that Serbia's Minister for Innovation and Technological Development, Nenad Popovic, has a fortune of least 75 million US dollars, the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK, revealed on Monday.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has invested millions in offshore accounts, according to the BBC.

The British media refers to reports as Paradise Papers released by the ICIJ based in Washington. During the period 2004-2005, money was invested in funds registered in the Cayman and Bermuda islands.

A report on freedom of speech and the state of media, which Bosnia's government, the Council of Ministers, adopted on Thursday, and which BIRN has obtained, highlights the problems facing the media in the country.

The politician stands at the entrance and at the exit, controls and intervenes in the content of the journalistic materials. The political pressure on the media is back.

These are the findings of the Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria / AEG /, which has conducted an online research on freedom of speech, reported BGNES.

The United States is withdrawing from UNESCO, the United Nation’s cultural and educational agency, effective 31 December, the US state separtment said in a statement on Thursday.

Police detained 19 suspects on Wednesday after members of the anti-establishment group Rouvikonas (Greek for Rubicon) barged into the Spanish Embassy in Athens.

In a message posted on the Athens Indymedia website, the group said the raid, which took place shortly after 10 a.m., was in solidarity with "the oppressed people of Catalonia."

Unknown assailants, allegedly members of the Rouvikonas (Greek for Rubicon) anti-establishment group, have stormed into the Spanish Embassy in central Athens, according to reports Wednesday.

Early reports indicate the assailants caused damage to the embassy building on the Dionysiou Areopagitou promenade, near the Acropolis, but there are as yet no reports of injuries.

Dimitar Dimitrov, Director of European Policies at Wikimedia and a Bulgarian political scientist, shared his fears that a new copyright law reform would hamper quality journalism in Europe.

The arrest of journalists is quite a big problem in democratic societies since it is a violation against society's right to demand news. Therefore, our country is viewed by the international community as quite troubled.

So, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted applications from journalists and asked for a defense from the Justice Ministry.