Media Literacy Conference --- In relation to WEstern Balkans, the EU has developed the "Media Literacy conference" that brings together for a few days fact-checkers and media organisations in the Western Balkans. Fact-checking organisations link up with partners in the region, workacross borders and team up with organisations in the European Union. the idea was to encourage organisations to continue their work to counter disinformation in a region where this phenomenon has been rather wide spread, and at the same time protect and promote fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression and media pluralism

Source author: Bianca Anechitei Bianca.ANECHITEI@eeas.europa.eu