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28 January – International Data Privacy Day

BELGRADE, 28 January 2026 – On the occasion of International Data Privacy Day, Partners Serbia warns that during 2025 Serbia continued to face a worrying trend of misuse of citizens’ personal data and...

Working Group on Amendments to Media Laws and the New Media Strategy: A Closed Process Without Guarantees of Integrity or Genuine Reform

The National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) expresses its deep concern regarding the manner in which the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications (the Ministry) has initiated the form...

Draft Law on “e-Sick Leave”: Digitalization That Threatens Employees’ Rights and Heightens Privacy Risks

BELGRADE, November 26, 2025 – Partners Serbia expresses serious concern regarding the Draft Law on Data Exchange in Cases of Temporary Incapacity for Work through the software solution “e-Sick Leave –...

The Fourth Privacy School Program Successfully Completed

During October and November 2025, Partners Serbia successfully organized the fourth cycle of the Privacy School program. A total of 45 participants completed the Privacy School, having passed the sel...

Annual Research on Institutional Openness in the Western Balkans: Serbia at the Bottom

Democracies in the Western Balkans continue to face deep structural problems. Although they formally function as democratic systems, in practice they are burdened by “hybrid” tendencies, concentration...

Statement on the Disclosure of a Student’s Identity by the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Partners Serbia strongly condemns the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, which, by publicly disclosing the identity of a student of the Faculty of Agriculture, dire...

The Growing Public Demand for Transparency in Serbia

The International Day for Universal Access to Information, marked annually on 28 September, comes this year in the shadow of the failed amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Im...

Sharing intimate content without consent – a reflection of the policy of impunity in Serbia

The phenomenon of ‘revenge porn’ – sharing intimate content without consent – has exposed a deep crisis in the rule of law in Serbia. Instead of protecting the rights and dignity of victims, in...

Wisely and cautiously on the way to orderly relations with digital platforms

The conclusion was somewhat paradoxical: Serbia, and neither the other countries of the Western Balkans, should by no means rush to comply with the European Union's regulations. It was a surprising me...

Albania Should Further Align with EU’s Digital Services Act; Study Reveals

A regional study focused on the Western Balkans and Turkye, presented in Tirana on June 25 highlighted several challenges that Albania is facing in the sector of digital rights and offered ...

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