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Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Unveils 20 New E-Services for Streamlined Processes

Bulgaria's Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched 20 new electronic administrative services, aiming to alleviate the administrative load for citizens and businesses, according to an official announcement. With this addition, the Ministry now offers a total of 74 electronic services, enhancing the application and processing of existing services.

Greeks turning their backs on news media

Citizens in Greece are losing faith in the news delivered by traditional media, partly due to perceptions of undue political and business influence on journalism, according to the annual Digital News Report 2023 by the Reuters Institute based on a YouGov survey of over 93,000 online news consumers in 46 markets covering half of the world's population. 

‘Shame, Guilt’: Can North Macedonia Crack Down on Online Harassment?

A friend of Qamili and a cousin had both shown her similar messages they had received months earlier, containing the same kind of vulgar content and the same spelling errors. They suspected the same person was harassing them, using a dialect of Albanian that pointed to their hometown, Kicevo in North Macedonia.

Terror suspects to appear before investigating magistrate Friday

Two suspects of Pakistani origin are set to appear before an investigating magistrate on Friday on charges of planning an attack on a Jewish center in the busy downtown area of Psyri. The suspects allegedly received orders from a fellow Pakistani who is currently evading arrest in Iran.

Media Violations in Election Day: Reports Preliminary Results, Circumventing the Law

As always, the Bulgarian finds loopholes in the laws to get away with it!
Thus, several media also show the preliminary election results, despite the explicit legal prohibition to do so.

Laws are for everyone and the media should be the ones to monitor compliance, not justify themselves and find "detours".

North Macedonia Threatens to Block Telegram Over Pornographic Picture Sharers

Macedonian authorities on Thursday threatened to block the messaging app Telegram over the activities of a group of more than 7,000 users who have been sharing and exchanging explicit pictures and videos of girls - some of whom are underage.

Some users even wrote the names and locations of the girls. Others have shared photoshopped images taken from their Instagram profiles.

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