October 6, 2017 / By EBU News The EBU supports Bulgarian journalists in their protest against political pressure and urges politicians to refrain from interference in journalists’ work. After days of tension between the ruling parties’ politicians and the media, Bulgarian journalists have staged protests to defend their right to work free from political pressure. The…
17 november 2015 / By Juan García. Huffington Post Over a quarter of a century since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the scars of Central & Eastern Europe’s post-communist legacy are still clear to see. Lacking the institutional infrastructure and regulatory oversight, the collapse of communism in the USSR created a void across the…
26 June 2015 / By Sofia Globe Concerns persist about deterioration of the media environment in Bulgaria because of corporate and political pressure that, combined with the growing and nontransparent concentration of media ownership and distribution networks, gravely damaged media pluralism, the US state department said in its country report on human rights practices in…
14 May 2015 / By Nelly Ognyanova and Orlin Spassov The condition of the media environment in Bulgaria makes it a special case. The country ranks lowest among European Union Member States in the World Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders for 2015 (106th place in the overall ranking). This trend shows no sign of improving, with…
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