NKEU slams Vucic for accusing independent media of criminalising Kosovo Serbs
N1 Info 27.04.2019 | Beta FoNet
A body designed to coordinate the structured debate on Serbia’s accession to the EU expressed on Saturday concern over President Aleksandar Vucic’s recent claim that foreigners had established a media network tasked with discrediting Serb politicians from Kosovo.
His statement was "severely attacking and labelling independent media,” said the National Convention on the EU, NKEU, along with two other negotiating groups, including one charged with freedom of expression and media. Vucic had claimed the intention of the foreigners was to lead a media campaign that would “criminalise” Serbs in the northern part of Kosovo. Such “random statements have a negative impact on the work of independent media and