17/10/2012 Culture, Science, Education and Media
Strasbourg, 17.10.2012 - PACE members from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macdonia" have agreed a number of steps that parliaments can take to ensure the political independence of public service broadcasting in the region, as well as its stable and secure funding.
Public service broadcasters, academics and civil society representatives joined the parliamentarians to discuss the issue at a seminar in Zagreb on 15 October, hosted by the Croatian Parliament and organised by PACE’s Culture Committee and Parliamentary Projects Support Division with the support of the Open Society Foundation Media Programme.