Pavol Szalai (Photo: PrintScreen YouTube)
Serbia's progress on the Index of Media Freedoms list is partly the result of using a different methodology but also falling on the list of countries like Greece, Albania or Cyprus whilst in some aspects media freedoms have progressed very little, Pavol Szalai chief of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) department for the EU and Balkans has said.
Commenting on the recently published list on which Serbia ranks 79th out of 180 countries which is 14 spots better than in 2021, Szalai said on May 5 that despite that Serbia still belonged to the category of "problematic" countries as well as that only Albania ranked lower than Serbia in the region while all of the other former Yugoslav republics ranked higher.
"The problems are numerous, first of all the political climate, which is especially important in terms of verbal attacks on journalists. There is also an economic context here, media financing is not being efficiently regulated and thirdly, there is a lack of justice for individual crimes against journalists," Szalai said.
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