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A study entitled “Media Regulatory Framework and the Online Media - the Macedonian Case”, which was supported by the European Union and the Council of Europe, showed that no additional media regulation of new media is needed in that country. This outcome highlights the need to maintain freedom of the media as the main public policy objective and therefore avoid any type of content regulation, supporting instead, where necessary, self-regulation. Current discussions concerning reform of the media regulatory framework in Macedonia is intended to ensure professional standards of media reporting and...

After six months of intensive work, the new EU-funded “Technical Assistance to Public Service Media in the Western Balkans” project was launched with a two-day conference on 26 June 2018. The project aims to strengthen the independence of public service broadcasters in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) and enhance their profile as public services. It hopes to achieve this through the development of suitable measures for improved funding models, the definition and implementation of journalistic standards and guidelines, and regional...

On 9 February 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered an important judgment, condemning the forcible removal of journalists from the national parliament gallery where they were reporting on a parliamentary debate in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. During the debate a group of opposition members of parliament (MPs) had started creating a disturbance in the parliamentary chamber, and had been ejected by security officers. The applicants, all accredited journalists, had refused to leave the gallery but were finally forcibly removed by security officers. The journalists...

Based on the newly amended Electoral Code - Article 76-c (Изборен законик), the media regulation authority, the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, developed a methodology to monitor media election coverage on the radio and television programme services (Методологија за мониторинг на изборното медиумско претставување преку радио и телевизиските програмски сервиси за време на изборните процеси). The EU Senior Expert Group, led by Reinhard Priebe, who was tasked to pinpoint the systemic rule of law issues, noted in June 2015 that there was “an unhealthy relationship between the mainstream...

In light of the heaviest political crisis since the independence of the country, the four biggest political parties agreed on regulation of political advertising. According to many experts, political advertising severely influences the editorial policy of the media outlets, especially during elections. Based on the political agreement, which has been achieved with mediation by the European Union, the National Parliament amended the Electoral Code (Изборен законик) in order to ensure that the political parties will have equal access to the media during the early elections, scheduled for April 2016....