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AAVMU reaction: The government does not respect recommendations from Brussels

The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AAVMU) today strongly responded after the government's decision yesterday, saying that the government cabinet had exceeded its competencies and interfered with the independence of this regulatory body, something Brussels has specifically pointed out. Namely, yesterday the Government gave a negative opinion on the Regulatory Strategy for the Development of Audio and Audiovisual...

AEC and AVMU are still “political” bodies for the public

The percentage of citizens who know what both regulatory bodies are in the sphere of media and electronic communication and what their responsibilities are, is small. This was the conclusion of the presentation of the final monitoring report on the work of the Agency for Electronic Communications (AEC) and Agency for audio and audiovisual media services(AVMU). In the last 18...

Manchevski: The opposition has been filibustering the media laws for four months

The Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski, today at a press conference in the Government asked the Parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Environment, chaired by VMRO-DPMNE, to work continuously on a daily basis, until the amendment debate on the Draft Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services has ended. He said that the opposition should think about...

Promoting “CriThink”, a media literacy project with a grant scheme

At the Holiday Inn Hotel in Skopje, a kick-off event was held for the project “The Critical Thinking for Mediawise Citizens – CriThink ”, supported by the European Union and will be implemented in the next three years by the Foundation for Internet and Society “Metamorphosis” in partnership with the Center for European Strategies – Eurothink. At the meeting, attended...

Mancevski: The Government wants an independent MRT and professional regulatory bodies

The Government is committed to creating space for the media to inform the citizens impartially and objectively. Our goal is MRT to be a completely impartial and independent media outlet, and the regulatory bodies to be transparent, professional and competent. It is especially important the regulatory bodies and the national broadcaster to not have members of senior party officials,...

AVMU can not avoid responsibility for media chaos, says the Government

The Government and the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services(AAVMU) yesterday and today exchanged sharp objections to the problems in media sphere in the past period, following the accusation from the Minister Robert Popovski on Friday that the Agency has not functioned and did not perform its competences for years, in the context retransmission of foreign programming services...