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BELGRADE - Serbia will chair the Danube Commission for the next three years, Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released on Thursday.

This is yet another confirmation of Serbia's changed international position and its reputation in the international community, the release states.

BELGRADE - If not cautious, Serbia could face the next winter without sufficient gas supplies due to the Ukrainian crisis, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic warned on Thursday.

A European Commission report on euro-area convergence released on Wednesday says that of eight EU member states, only Lithuania meets all the criteria for joining the euro.

Romania and Bulgaria are among the countries that are not ready yet to switch to the single currency, according to the report.

Report: Serbia prisons most crowded in Europe

Minister says conditions are improving as Serbia increases its prison capacity and modifies laws.

Serbian authorities are improving the capacity of the country's correctional institutions, but overcrowding remains a problem, experts said.

PARIS - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Julia Goerges of Germany reached the mixed doubles final at Roland Garros.

The EU Commission has explained why an infringement procedure is under way only against Bulgaria when other EU states are also involved in the South Stream project.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has booked the entire capacity tendered by the Hungarian side of the Arad - Szeged gas pipeline, chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Committee for Industries and Services Iulian Iancu told a conference on energy this Monday.

EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has tied the South Stream gas pipeline to the political behavior of Russia in the conflict in Ukraine.

By Leonid Bershidsky

Europe has a new source of economic growth. In the next few months all European Union countries that do not already include drugs, prostitution, and other illegal and gray-market businesses in their gross domestic product calculations will have to do so.

BELGRADE - Three Serbian students have won the world's biggest petroleum systems management competition, also taking the audience award and the best presenter award, which went to Uros Denic.