Tag: media

Without a cleansed electoral roll, balanced media reporting and without the separation of the state and the party, it is uncertain whether early parliamentary elections on June 5 will be held and now nobody can know. This was stated by the German Ambassador, Christine Althauser at a debate organized by the NGO "Civil" on "Pluralism and the political crisis",...

Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, submitted a report of her work for the first six months and since the establishment of the SPP, to Parliament, the Council of Public Prosecutors and the media. The report is divided into six chapters, which stipulate the conditions within the SPP from its constitution and available human resources, the facilities in which it operate's, a...

At the moment, unfortunately, it is impossible to continue meetings for the media format in which the negotiations took place so far, announced today the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte. "Taking into account the public interest in media negotiations within political working groups, we want to inform you that it was not possible to continue the meetings of the working groups....

The United States is a strategic partner of Macedonia. Washington, as a friend, are following all aspects for fair and democratic elections on June 5th, said Hoyt Brain Yee, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia at the US State Department after a meeting with the interim Prime Minister, Emil Dimitriev. “If all commitments are honoured, then there are no...

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia today in a statement welcomed the efforts of the European Union and the United States as facilitators in the Przhino Agreement and as guarantors of its implementation and encourages them to continue to discussions with political parties on media reforms as one of the important conditions for fair and credible elections. "The AJM welcomes...

Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and United States (US) in the country, Aivo Orav and Jess Baily according to announcements this afternoon should announce their assessment of whether there are conditions for holding early parliamentary elections on April 24. There has been no official confirmation on how the ambassadors will announce their decision, whether they will personally take their findings...

The parties participating in the negotiations over the media, today have no idea what the future holds after last nights failed last attempt to reform the media. Only information from "Netpress" reported that negotiations will continue again today, implicating that the process over the media may not be dead in the water just yet. Meanwhile SDSM, say that this information is...

Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte late tonight confirmed that the parties signatories of the Przhino Agreement had not reached an agreement on the matter of media regulation. “We've had intensive negotiations for two days and all I can confirm now is that a deal has not been reached”, said Mr Vanhouttte. When asked who is to blame for the breakdown of the...

Today I expect to make progress and for the political parties to agree on reforms in the media, said the facilitator Peter Vanhoutte before today's final meeting and before the deadline for an agreement on reforms to the media. “I hope for progress in the negotiations and for all parties to be constructive. Today, we will discuss two issues regarding...

The President of the Association of Journalists, Naser Selmani, and the President of the Independent Union of Journalists and Media Workers Tamara Chausidis, today before the MPs Clubhouse, where talks were being held regarding media reforms, once again confirmed the view of the associations, that they will not accept any form of government advertising. Selmani said he had heard speculation...

Last nights marathon talks between the working groups of the political parties on media reform ended with no results. Belgian mediator Peter Vanhaute after last night's talks over the media, tweeted two tweets at 2:00am. In his first tweet he wrote: "After long negotiations, it is time for creative solutions: sleep. Talks on media continue tomorrow. " https://twitter.com/peter_vanhoutte/status/699757328862728192 In his second tweet, he...

Today, at the EU Info Centre in Skopje, journalists and editors from major media outlets in Macedonia signed a Declaration for ethical reporting on elections, organized by the Council for Media Ethics of Macedonia (SEMM). The signing of the Declaration was attended by EU Ambassador to Macedonia Aivo Orav, British Ambassador Charles Garrett, and Dutch Ambassador Willem Wouter Plomp. The Declaration...

The Council on Media Ethics of Macedonia (SEMM) after yesterday's interview on TV "Sitel" at 19:00 expressed serious concern about the unprofessional behaviour of the Editor in Chief Dragan Pavlovic - Latas, and indecent and mistreatment of his guest Zoran Zaev. The Council, on the ethics in the media say that behaviour with discriminatory vocabulary, underrated and arrogant approach and...

The Albanian side in the negotiations for the media reforms, submitted amendments that should be added to the draft law for the media, to mediator Peter Vanhoutte, reported "Alsat-M". According to them, amendments to the Albanian side are concerned with issues that concern the interests of Albanians, i.e. the media in television and radio channels of the "Macedonian Radio Television". Apparently, the...

It is still unknown if negotiations will continue today by working groups of political parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement. This follows the latest meeting, which took place on Thursday 4th of January this year and ended without anyone involved changing entrenched positions. So far, according to sources connected to the parties, the Belgian negotiator Peter Vanhoutte...

Negotiations over the media between the working groups of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, again have come to a standstill after yesterday's bilateral meetings with Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte. Negotiators have restated their firm stances and have made clear that they do not intend to deviate from them. A new meeting has not yet been scheduled and...

Nikola Gruevski and VMRO-DPMNE do not want a free media. They need the media to be dependent and control the media to control the citizens, this is Nikola Gruevski's goal. Because, lies from the pro-government media have been paid for, with millions of euros, money which belongs to the people, said Zoran Zaev leader of SDSM at a press conference...

Neither the draft law proposed by SDSM is not acceptable to the Association of Journalists of Macedonia. According to the President of the AJM Naser Selmani, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM are undermining the proposal of the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte in a join effort to reform the media system. On his Facebook profile wrote that SDSM's amendments can be seen miles...

SDSM spokesman, Petre Shilegov released documents from the Central Registry which, according to him, shows that the peoples' money ended up in the pro-government media's pockets. According to Shilegov, it's one of the reasons why right conditions can not be provided for objective reporting in the media, and that is why it is not possible to have fair and regular...

The negotiations between the working groups of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement are expected to continue on Friday afternoon, where negotiators need to decide on the draft law on the media submitted by SDSM. However, according to pro government media, VMRO-DPMNE and DUI find this draft law unacceptable. Yesterday, SDSM submitted to the parties signatory to the...