The Law on Free Access to Information was one of the best laws in the world, but today institutions are no longer answering citizens’ questions, so the citizens’ right to access information is violated. The media will always be an indicator of democracy in society, because of the fact that they are not the cause of anything, but a consequence of fundamental things in the country, and investigative journalists gathered in civil society organizations need mainstream media to make their stories visible, concluded the Right to Information panel held today in the organization of the European Movement in Serbia and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Belgrade.

The panel, stating that Serbia has a lot of work to do in the field of media freedom and citizens’ right to information if it wants to join the European Union, was opened by the Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia (EMinS) Zvezdana Kovač. She recalled on of the research of the World Press Freedom Index, where Serbia ranks 93rd out of 180 countries.

Instead of advancing, we are going in the opposite direction, as evidenced by the fact that we were on the same scale, six years ago, in 54th place.

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