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OSCE in Serbia announces winners of Person of Year Award
The OSCE Mission to Serbia on Tuesday presented its 2015 Person of the Year Award to three recipients at a ceremony in Belgrade, the organization said.
Montenegro to Clamp Down on Arms Smugglers
Police in Montenegro have tightened security on the border to prevent arms smuggling after a new report said that some weapons used by ISIS come from the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
Privatization Will Not Free Serbian Media, Journalists Say
The media privatization process in Serbia finished on Monday when the last media outlet that was announced for sale signed the contract with a buyer.
However, journalists associations claim the Serbian media will not be any freer as a result of the sales.
Hahn to visit Belgrade and address MPs Thursday
EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn will be paying an official visit to Serbia on Thursday.
This has been announced on Hahn's website, according to Tanjug.
"Great relations with Serbia, never worse with Croatia"
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto says his country's relations with Serbia are "exceptionally good," while those with Croatia "have never been worse."
Djokovic, Spanovic named Serbia's athletes of year
World's best tennis player Novak Djokovic and long-jumper Ivana Spanovic have been named Serbia's athletes of the year.
This is the outcome of the vote of the Olympic Committee of Serbia (OKS).
Serbia will join EU "when it's ready" - EP official
Serbia has made substantial progress but there is more hard work ahead with the opening of the first EU membership negotiating chapters, says the EP rapporteur.
David McAllister spoke ahead of the intergovernmental conference in Brussels on December 14.
Vucic: Defense Minister will be sacked for making offensive remark to female journalist
Vucic: Defense Minister will be sacked for making offensive remark to female journalist
Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic, who on Sunday remarked he was fond of "(female) journalists who kneel easily" cannot remain in office, says Aleksadar Vucic.
AFTER GORAZDEVAC ATTACK "Albanians are personally responsible for safety of Serbs"
AFTER GORAZDEVAC ATTACK "Albanians are personally responsible for safety of Serbs"
Marko Djuric was in Gorazdevac on Monday when he said Kosovo Albanian politicians are personally responsible for the safety of Serbs in this enclave.
Human Rights Watch Warns of Asylum Seekers Stuck on Serbian-Bulgarian Border
In an article published at the website of Human Rights Watch on Monday, a researcher for Eastern Europe and Western Balkans, described the harsh conditions asylum seekers are faced with in Dimitrovgrad, a town in southeastern Serbia, at the border with Bulgaria.
ISIS Using Bosnian, Serbian Weapons, Amnesty Says
Assault weapons and small arms sent from Bosnia and Serbia to Britain may have ended up in the hands of the militant Islamic group, research carried out by human rights organisation Amnesty International says.
"IS uses weapons exported to Britain from Serbia and Bosnia"
IS terrorists are using weapons that were some ten years ago exported from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to Britain, and later arrived in Syria and Iraq.
Pope appoints new apostolic nuncio in Serbia
Roman Catholic Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Luciano Suriani, delegate for papal diplomatic representations, as apostolic nuncio in Serbia.
The Holy See press office announced this on Monday, according to Tanjug.
Bulgaria among Countries Most Affected by Extreme Weather Events in 2014
Three Southeastearn European states are among the six countries in the world most affected by extreme weather events last year, according to environmental group Germanwatch's Global Climate Risk Index (CRI).
The index [PDF] analyses the impacts of extreme weather events both in terms of fatalities and of losses incurred by the economy.
"GMO legislation stands in way of WTO membership"
Serbia, Bosnia and Belarus are the only countries in Europe that have not joined World Trade Organization (WTO), the Beta agency is reporting.
The main reason, it added, is "the refusal to adopt a new law on genetically modified organisms (GMOs)."