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FAS only major exporter in Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbia has no major exporter except Fiat Automobiles Serbia (FAS), surveys carried out by the Business Info Group show, noting that FAS is the only company whose exports exceed EUR 1 billion annually.

Gentiloni: Italy will back opening of chapters

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Italy's Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni noted on Tuesday that the two countries have excellent political relations.

Exhibition on Valjevo in 1914-1915

VALJEVO - The exhibition on Valjevo during the epidemic of typhoid fever in 1914-15, when the whole town was one big hospital, is to open at the National Museum of Valjevo on Thursday, April 2.

The presentation is inspired by the first-person narratives of foreigners who found themselves in Valjevo, western Serbia, at that time.

"Growth impossible with strong currency and interest rates"

"Growth impossible with strong currency and interest rates"

BELGRADE -- Without more exports Serbia cannot avoid bankruptcy, says Nikola Pavicic, adding that country needs "a new economic policy that backs export-bound production."

Serbs and Greeks arrested for smuggling migrants

Serbs and Greeks arrested for smuggling migrants

BUDAPEST -- The Hungarian police have arrested two Serbian and two Greek citizens in two separate incidents related to illegal border crossings of a total of 28 migrants.

Nikolic gave a medal to Azerbaijan 's botox queen

Nikolic gave a medal to Azerbaijan 's botox queen

Serbian president gave Sretenje's medal to Mehriban Aliyeva (50), wife of Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan.

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Poverty risk rate at 25.6 percent in Serbia

BELGRADE - The poverty risk rate in Serbia in 2014 was 25.6 percent when viewed through income, the national bureau of statistics has said.

The risk rate for poverty or social exclusion in Serbia, when considering all the factors that can influence it, was 43.2 percent last year.

Belgrade, Moscow to sign cooperation agreement in June

BELGRADE - The Cities of Belgrade and Moscow will sign a cooperation agreement in the Russian capital in June, to deepen cooperation between the two cities in several areas over the next few years, Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali said Tuesday.

Serbia's lack of desire to join NATO "not wrong"

Serbia's lack of desire to join NATO "not wrong"

BELGRADE -- Vice President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Paolo Alli has said that "it is not wrong" that Serbia does not want to be a member of this alliance.

"Some chapters could be opened and closed in 2015"

"Some chapters could be opened and closed in 2015"

BELGRADE -- Head of the negotiating team in Serbia's EU accession talks Tanja Miscevic stated on Tuesday that Serbia is "excellently prepared for the negotiations."

She also "hopes that certain chapters in the EU accession talks would be opened and closed by the end of the year," Tanjug reported.

EUR 4 mn subsidies for US-based NCR

BELGRADE - Serbian Economy Minister Zeljko Sertic signed on Tuesday an agreement on subsidies totaling EUR 4 million with the US-based company NCR, which plans to employ 800 more people in Serbia by 2017.

We will have a global service provider with more than 1,400 employees, Sertic told reporters after signing the agreement at the Serbian government building.

Miscevic expects closing of chapters by end of year

BELGRADE - Head of the negotiating team in Serbia's EU accession talks Tanja Miscevic stated on Tuesday that Serbia is excellently prepared for the negotiations and hopes that certain chapters in the EU accession talks would be opened and closed by the end of the year.

EU integrations progress "depends on Kosovo talks"

EU integrations progress "depends on Kosovo talks"

BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says Serbia's progress towards the EU "will depend on the assessment of whether there is progress in the dialogue with Pristina."

Gentiloni: Serbia's EU integration should go step further

BELGRADE - Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni stated on Tuesday that Italy is certain Serbia's European integration process should go a step further and added that all conditions have been met for the European Commission (EC) to adopt a decision to open negotiating chapters in the months to come.

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