Residents of Serbia against local corruption and global neo-colonialism The end of 2021 in Serbia was marked by mass civil protests in 50 Serbian cities that united many civic environmental movements, organizations dedicated to human rights and individual citizens gathered around the intention to prevent cardinally harmful economic projects of […]
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ECB 2.0 is an initiative to build a federated platform for European civil society media and content producers. Launched by developers, archivists and community media providers, we aim to connect communities across Europe by developing a sustainable and self-managed alternative to centralized commercial services for the publishing and preservation of […]
Radio and Social Activism A synonym for radio in Serbia is radio station B92 – it is even today, six years after it has been shut down. During the 1990s war in Yugoslavia and Serbia, this radio station played a key role in informing the citizens of Serbia, being the […]
The usual question “How are you?” in Serbia is not just a formality. It happens rather often within daily communication to receive in response a detailed “report” from the interlocutor.These days, that answer in Belgrade often sounds like this: “I feel like we are back the 90s. It is as […]
Hungary, Budapest. In the early 2010s we were afraid that the Media Council would regulate the media with fines, which would have evoked a classic censorship, but it soon became clear that more attention should be paid to the transformation of ownership. In a survey conducted by Mérték (Measure) Media […]
When someone asked me to introduce and say a few sentences about Hungary’s media landscape and about the state of free media, I lost my bearings. I could recite the government’s or the National Media Authority’s statements about Hungary’s media – “it is diverse, free, media pluralism was never so […]
The free radio scene is participating at re:publica21, the largest conference on topics of the Internet and digital society in Europe promoting their slogan “FREE, ANONYM, FREE OF CHARGE – What happens to the FREE FREQUENCIES?” „We have noticed that it is unclear in almost all federal states what will […]
The Orban government has revoked the license of the Hungarian citizen radio station “Civil Radio” after 24 years. The free radios in Baden-Württemberg are also threatened with being deported to the Internet if they are switched off in the future. What does this mean for the European civil society in […]
One step closer to justice In November 2019 Foundation for Civil Radio filed a lawsuit against a decision by the Media Council of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority that from December 21, 2019 Civil Radio had to stop its broadcasting on the air. We knew that this legal action […]