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Foreign Affairs Minister Lazar Comanescu asked the Senate for a point of view on the elimination of the radio-TV licence tax, in order to forward it in reaction to an alert posted on the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Protection of Journalism. The Foreign Minister pointed out that an alert concerning the Romanian Parliament’s […]

The Lower Chamber on Tuesday adopted the bill filed by Social Democratic Party (PSD) President Liviu Dragnea, providing for the elimination of over 100 non-fiscal taxes, including the radio-TV licence tax, rejecting the amendments of the special commission which would have seen the radio-TV licence tax remaining in force. The draft law on eliminating some […]

A joint conference of the Association of the Balkan News Agencies – Southeast Europe (ABNASE) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA) on “The role of news agencies in time of crisis”, aimed at drawing attention to the responsibilities which the media institutions have with the public and the entire society, regardless […]

Dan Suciu will no longer be the Romanian Government’s Spokesperson, former journalist Liviu Iolu, who is currently state advisor, being set to replace him. Dan Suciu will allegedly return to the National Bank of Romania (BNR), news.ro claims. On 20 November 2015, at Premier Dacian Ciolos’s request and with the acceptance of BNR Governor Mugur […]

At a joint plenary session of the Lower Chamber and the Senate on Tuesday, Parliament approved a proposal to appoint Irina Radu (photo) as president and CEO of the Romanian National Television Broadcasting Corporation (SRTv). The decision was made by 304 votes to eight. As many as 230 Lower Chamber lawmakers and 82 Senators attended […]

MediaSind Romanian union of journalists, in partnership with Romania’s National News Agency Agerpres, on Tuesday launched a ReStart project, on the occasion of the World Free Press Day. The ReStart project is inspired by “The Ethical Journalism Initiative” concept promoted by the International Federation of Journalists. ReStart is designed for the students at Romanian universities […]

Journalism is still used for intimidation, blackmail and influence peddling, while state authorities attempt to prevent access to information on crucial events in Romania’s recent history, according to the FreeEx January 2015 – April 2016 report by ActiveWatch, released to Agerpres. ActiveWatch, a non-governmental organization promoting free communication for public interest, asserts that structural problems […]

Media pluralism is endangered in Romania and the rest of Europe is not free of risk either, but of all 19 states covered by the Media Pluralism Monitor 2015 report presented on Wednesday by the Median Research Centre (MRC), Romania is the only one that raises red flags at all mass-media major assessment benchmarks, the […]

Garbage should not be hidden under the mat just because it’s ugly and smelly in full electoral campaign and the broken bag shouldn’t be patched only because we must go to votes’ harvesting, on Sunday wrote Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos on his Facebook page, in reference to the situation of the public television TVR. “They […]

The public television has recorded in 2015 over 24 million lei in losses, according to the activity report of the Romanian Society of Television (SRTv) submitted to the Parliament on Friday. According to the document, the Romanian Television has had in 2015 total incomes of 501,059,860 lei, of which operating revenues of 495,076,982 lei (down […]