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The state-owned telecommunications company has previously already founded media companies, despite that not being permitted under the previous law.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,000 citizens signed the petition in less than 24 hours, including renowned journalists, lawyers and citizens, but it was ignored by the MPs of the ruling majority.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the new laws are of the opinion that restoring the state\u2019s ownership of media companies will have an even greater impact on stifling the fragile media pluralism that exists in Serbia. Their other complaints, which were also dismissed, relate to the government\u2019s stance that the adoption of the law shouldn\u2019t mean changing the current composition of the regulatory body for electronic media, the work of which has prompted a large number of complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 1, 2023 The National Assembly of Serbia has adopted two new laws on the media \u2013 regulating public information and electronic media \u2013 that the Serbian government has dubbed \u201crevolutionary\u201d, while journalists\u2019 associations and the civil sector have been highly critical of them and attempted to prevent their adoption in the form proposed until the final hour. 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