July 16, 2025
Serbian Information and Telecommunications Minister Boris Bratina has stated that individual television stations and print media publications, especially weekly news magazines, “are waging war against their own country”.
“The media may have an anti-government position, but what is visible and extremely dangerous is the anti-state activity of certain media outlets and certain journalists. That primarily falls under the jurisdiction of Criminal Code,” said Bratina.
It is very dangerous to call for the Criminal Code to be applied against journalists, especially at a time when the president of the country, Aleksandar Vučić, constantly seeks a reaction from the prosecutor’s office, accusing the media of inciting terrorism.
Minister Bratina explained that all those who support the blockades are “anti-state elements”, in reference to the protests that students and citizens have been organising for the past nine months.
Minister Bratina considers that “individual media companies” are dealing more with politics and creating “some reality of their own” than with the informing of citizens.
It is noteworthy that this minister is known for belonging to the extreme right, as well as for having burned a European Union flag at a protest.
