AGK for Media Freedom Index: Reflection of hostile policy by the VV government, Kosovo ranks 990)

From the 75th country to which it landed last year, this organisation for 2025 ranked Kosovo 99th, out of a total of 180 states for which it measures.

The report points out that journalists in Kosovo are a constant target of political attacks and are wrongly called “enemy collaborators”. Also criticised is the adoption of the KPM Law that politicised this independent body.

Even though the media has been successful in keeping politicians responsible, journalists have continued to be the target of political attacks. The inefficient media regulator, the Independent Media Commission (KPM), was subject to a law reform that risks even more hindering this body's independence. Before the 2025 elections, several media parties were targeted to be boycotted by the government, which also threatened the public broadcaster's independence, RTK. Although journalists enjoy society's trust, independent media and investigative journalists are very often targeted by false insults and news in social media. They are falsely accused as “enemy collaborators”, rhetoric used by political and religious groups”, the report says in the main part.

It also mentions increasing SLAPP indictments against journalists, difficulties for access to public documents, monitoring journalists, and threats to their physical security.

The AGK has been deeply concerned with this ranking, the lowest in a decade since 2015. However, he views it as reflecting a continuing, hostile policy of the last two years led by the government of the political party, Vetevendosje.

The AGK invites all institutional and civil society actors for joint work, including drafting a new KPM law, in order for the country to improve its catastrophic rankings in the media freedom index. /Periscope/

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Kosovo's new alert decline in Reporters Without Borders report ranks 99th

The Kosovo Journalists' Association is alarmed with a new, drastic decline in Kosovo's new rankings of Reporters' Free Press Index without Borders.

From the 75th country to which it landed last year, this organisation for 2025 ranked Kosovo 99th, out of a total of 180 states for which it measures.

The report points out that journalists in Kosovo are a constant target of political attacks and are wrongly called “enemy collaborators”. Also criticised is the adoption of the KPM Law that politicised this independent body.

Even though the media has been successful in keeping politicians responsible, journalists have continued to be the target of political attacks. The inefficient media regulator, the Independent Media Commission (KPM), was subject to a law reform that risks even more hindering this body's independence. Before the 2025 elections, several media parties were targeted to be boycotted by the government, which also threatened the public broadcaster's independence, RTK. Although journalists enjoy society's trust, independent media and investigative journalists are very often targeted by false insults and news in social media. They are falsely accused as “enemy collaborators”, rhetoric used by political and religious groups”, the report says in the main part.

It also mentions increasing SLAPP indictments against journalists, difficulties for access to public documents, monitoring journalists, and threats to their physical security.

The AGK has been deeply concerned with this ranking, the lowest in a decade since 2015. However, he sees it as reflecting an ongoing, active policy of hostility to the media in the last two years by the government led by the political party, Vetevendosje.

The AGK invites all institutional and civil society actors for joint work, including drafting a new KPM law, in order for the country to improve its catastrophic rankings in the media freedom index. Full report: https://rsf.org/en/country-Kosovo