Subotica

SUBOTICA - Partizan beat Spartak 3-0 (1-0) to reach the final of the Serbian Cup 2015/2016 in Subotica on Wednesday.
    
Following a home 0-0 result in the first leg, the scorers taking the team from Belgrade to the final were Nemanja Mihajlovic in the 2nd, Dusan Vlahovic in the 84th and Ivan Bandalovski in the 89th minute.
    

Former Serbian deputy prime minister, Subotica mayor, and Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) party leader Jozsef Kasza has passed away.

The subotica.com website reported this on Wednesday. Hungarian media also carried the news, saying the 71-year-old died in the hospital in Subotica, and that his health had deteriorated over the past several years.

The Hungarian Army on Monday started to prepare the terrain near Morahalom, a small southern border town of about 6,000 people, for the erection of a four-metre-high fence designed to stop illegal migrants.

The authorities are only erecting an "experimental" fence, here however, no more than 150 metres long.

After meeting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on Wednesday, Merkel told a press conference that Belgrade has shown great flexibility in the Brussels-backed dialogue to normalise relations with Kosovo.

A memorandum of understanding was signed on Wednesday between the Serbian government, the city of Subotica, and Continental.

The German company is "a leading car industry supplier," while the document signed today is "expected to result in the opening of 500 new jobs and a EUR 17 million investment," according to Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The 70th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp will feature a special exhibition on the International Monument and its sculptor Nandor Glid at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.

Nandor Glid (1924-1997) was a Serbian sculptor born in Subotica.

SUBOTICA - Serbia is an attractive investment destination and the government has taken the right steps to improve the investment climate, German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm said on Wednesday.

SUBOTICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic underscored on Wednesday that the decision on the warrant for the arrest (of Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs Hasim Taci) is in the jurisdiction of independent court bodies.

Foreign investors "can count on support"

SUBOTICA -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has told foreign investors they can "count on support from the central and local governments."

Speaking on Wednesday as he toured Swarovski and Siemens plants in the northern town of Subotica, Vucic added that he "expects foreign investors will create more jobs."

BELGRADE - Representatives of the media from Romania and Bulgaria will be on a visit to Serbia from April 19 to 25 so as to learn first-hand about the tourism offer of Novi Sad, Subotica, Sremski Karlovci, Belgrade, Arandjelovac and Topola.