"The overview of activities to support the media in Southeast Europe is not equally detailed and comprehensive for each country or organization. Also, the information made available for this overview was provided in different ways: narrative or tables, divided by country or type of activity. This ma
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kes it difficult to draw sweeping conclusions. Nonetheless, several observations can be based on the information below. Support is increasingly aimed at strengthening local institutions. Support to public broadcasters is limited in comparison to support to private media (less than fifteen per cent of available figures). Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo receive more media support than Macedonia and Montenegro. Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Albania receive least. A rough calculation based on the available figures (not all distributed here, due to confidentiality) shows that 40 per cent of the financial support is for training, followed by 34 per cent for direct support to individual media outlets and 26 per cent for associations, media centers and legislative reforms." (Page 1)
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