News archive of October 2017

Ana Brnabic says Serbia's public debt amounted to 65.4 percent of GDP at the end of September, and is expected to drop to 62- 63 percent by the end of the year.

Speaking on Tuesday in Belgrade at a panel discussion organized by the Nordic Business Alliance, Brnabic said that Serbia will continue with fiscal discipline and at this moment the budget surplus is RSD 80 billion.

The Kosovo government on Tuesday said that it was not possible for Suriname to rescind its recognition, despite Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic's insistence that the small South American state has just done so.

Spain's Constitutional Court has blocked Catalonia’s declaration of independence, the Spanish daily El Mundo reported on Tuesday.

The Constitutional Court warned members of the permanent parliamentary office in Catalonia, including the sacked speaker of the Catalan parliament Carme Forcadell, to suspend any initiative that involves implementation of the declaration, the paper said.

Talks on the reunification of Cyprus should resume only if the "political status" of Turkish Cypriots is addressed should the new talks fail, a senior Turkish Cypriot official said.

China is considering legislation providing for sentences of up to three years in prison for disregard for the national anthem, the Associated Press and the DPA said, referring to the Chinese state media.

Ana Brnabic says Serbia's public debt amounted to 65.4 percent of GDP at the end of September, and is expected to drop to 62- 63 percent by the end of the year.

Speaking on Tuesday in Belgrade at a panel discussion organized by the Nordic Business Alliance, Brnabic said that Serbia will continue with fiscal discipline and at this moment the budget surplus is RSD 80 billion.

The Bosnian authorities extradited Mirsad Kandic to the US on Tuesday after he had been on Washington's wanted list for three years because of his alleged ties with terrorist organisations.

Kandic was deported on a special plane sent by the US government.

The 'Sarajevo Haggadah' and the manuscript collection of the Gazi Husrev-Beg Library in the Bosnian capital were recognised as valuable documentary heritage and put on the Memory of the World International Register at the general assembly of UNESCO in Paris on Monday. 

Greek actress Katerina Lehou, in the role of the High Priestess, lights a torch during a ceremony for the handover of the Olympic flame at the Panathenaic Stadium (Kallimarmaro) in Athens Tuesday.

Greek actress Katerina Lechou, in the role of the High Priestess, lights a torch with the Olympic flame during the handover ceremony of the Olympic flame at the Panathenaic Stadium, in Athens, Tuesday. The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics will be held from 9 until 25 February 2018. [Reuters]