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26 YEARS OF SEEMO - A CULTURE OF DIALOGUE FOR PRESS FREEDOM

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THE SEEMO SONG

PRESS FREEDOM NEWS

28 Apirl 2026: IPI, SEEMO and partner organisations condemn escalating use of “disinformation law” against journalists and call for its repeal

World Press Freedom Day 2026- by Eva Maria Grabmair, SEEMO Contributor

1 April 2026: Author’s text by Veran Matic: Bloody Sunday for Journalists in Serbia / Autorski tekst Verana Matića: Krvava nedelja za novinare

As of 1 April 2026, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO)
expanded its operations to include all European countries.

SEEMO is deeply shocked by the killing of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz in Athens, Greece, on 9 April 2021

SEEMO is deeply shocked by the killing of journalists and media workers since March 2022 in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

SPECIAL STATEMENTS TO SEEMO

Noel Curran, Director-General of the European Broadcasting Union – EBU (2025) November 27, 2025
Věra Jourová , Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Values and Transparency (2021) November 3, 2025
Noel Curran, Director-General of the European Broadcasting Union – EBU (2021) November 3, 2025
Roberto Antonione, Secretary General, Central European Initiative (2020) October 18, 2020
Karin Kneissl, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration of Austria (2018) September 12, 2018
Sebastian Kurz , Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration of Austria (2016) September 10, 2016
Johann David Wadephul, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2025 and Member of the German Bundestag since 2009 November 3, 2015
Ivo Josipović, President of Croatia (2014) September 13, 2014
Michael Spindelegger , Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Austria (2012) September 11, 2012

SEEMO: Joint Statements

In this section you can find SEEMO co-signed joint statements. Together we can change the world. Cooperation between organisations is important and is particularly relevant to addressing important press freedom violations.

Case: Murder of journalist Milan Pantić in 2001

Milan Pantić

SUBMIT A REPORT / INFORMATION ABOUT A PRESS FREEDOM VIOLATION

SEEMO Missions, Visits, Events and Meetings

seemo-gallery-2018-01 — Meeting with President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, January 2018

round-table-ukraine — Round table: Ukraine – Dialog statt Monolog, Vienna, 2017. Photo by Johanna Bickel

meeting-in-pristina-december-2016-01 — Meeting in Pristina 16 December 2016: Enver Hoxhaj Kosovo Minister for Foreign Affairs and Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO

romania — SEEMO Conference Bucharest, Prime Minster of Romania Victor Ponta and SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic (Bucharest, Romania, 2014)

istanbul-december-2016-seemo-supports — Istanbul 10 December 2016, SEEMO supports: Support for journalists in Turkey-since the coup attempt 120 journalists have been jailed

freedom-of-expression-vienna-december-2016-01 — Panel discussion Freedom of Expression in the Danube and the Black. Sea Area: Case Serbia, by Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) - Vienna, December 2016

International Journalism Festival (Perugia #ijf16) - panel by SEEMO and CEI: Who's fighting against corruption in SE Europe: the media or the police? With Barbara Fabro, Saša Leković,Cristian Niculescu, Aleksandra Bogdani, Milorad Ivanovic and Oliver Vujovic

SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic in a panel, ECPMF, Leipzig, October 2016

SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic with Slovenian Justice Minister Goran Klemenčič (first from right) in November 2014

SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic, during a meeting with the members of the Slovenian Parliament, Ljubljana, November 2014

International CPJ-IPI-SEEMO delegation meeting with the President of CHP party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Ankara, Turkey, October 2014

Meeting SEEMO-IPI delgation with the Minister of Justice of Slovenia, Goran Klemenčič, and his staff advisor, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2014

AJC Intensive Seminar at the Department of Communication, University Vienna, 8 July 2015, Current Issues in European Media- and Communication Studies, organised for a delegation of journalists from Vietnam. Guest lecture by Oliver Vujovic

Rome, Italy - Parliament with Radomir Licina, SEEMO Board member

Violence Against Newspersons, Athens, Greece, World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2017 by European Communication Institute, with the support of the European Parliament and in cooperation with Media Governance & Industries Research Lab of University of Vienna, Journalists about Journalism (J.A.J), and S.E.E.M.O

4-1 — 24 October 2016 , Koch Hall of the Italian Senate, Radomir Licina SEEMO Board member, discussion on the Italian situation of assaulted journalists and the unpunished guilty.

24 October 2016, Rome, Koch Hall of the Italian Senate, Celebration of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) Radomir Licina SEEMO Board member, with Mehdi Benchelah UNESCO's Senior Project Officer at Section for Freedom of Expression (left) and the director of Ossigeno per l'Informazione Alberto Spampinato (right)

24 October 2016, Rome, Koch Hall of the Italian Senate, Celebration of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI). From left: Radomir Licina SEEMO Board member, Alinda Vermeer MLDI's Senior Legal Officer, Alberto Spampinato Director of Ossigeno per l'Informazone, Giuseppe F. Mennella, secretary of Ossigeno per l'Informazione

Joint ECPMF Fact-finding mission in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia / FYROM, 25th-28th April 2017 SEEMO Mission member is SEEMO expert and member, Mtija Mersol, former editor in cheif of daily Delo Ljubljana, Slovenia

Berlin 2017, Study visit organised by German KAS

seemo-panel-migrant-deaths-december-2016 — December 2016: SEEMO Panel discussion "Migrant deaths along the Romanian border during Communism and the STASI's hand in them" with Marina Constantinoiu, Istvan Deak, Georg Herbstritt und Oliver Vujovic — at Fachhochschule des bfi, Vienna

seemo-mission-croatia-june-2016-meeting-with-the-president-of-croatia — Meeting with the President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (#missionCroatia2016), June 2016

seemo-gallery-2018-05 — SEEMF 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria

seemo-gallery-2018-04 — Pristina Media Days 2017

seemo-gallery-2018-03 — Pristina Media Days 2017 - Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi and SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic (May 2017)

seemo-gallery-2018-02 — Meeting with President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, January 2018

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SEEMO PARTNERS SINCE 2000