Vučić

Aleksandar Vucic, the Serbian Prime Minister, on Wednesday said pensions and salaries in the public sector over 25,000 dinars [€211] a month will be cut by between 3 and 20 per cent as of October.

"The largest number of pensioners, 60.2 per cent of them, will not be affected," Vucic told Serbian public broadcaster RTS.

Serbia will cut pensions and public sector salaries as part of a package of economic reform measures.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic explained in a Thursday interview for state-run TV station RTS that public sector salaries of over RSD 25 000 per month would be cut by 10-10.5% and that the country would adopt progressive pension cuts of 3.1%-10%.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with UAE Sheikh Moammed bin Zayed on Thursday and said afterwards the two of them had analysed the results of cooperation on the Belgrade Waterfront project.

It will constitute a great success if the upcoming busines results of Air Serbia show profit, Vucic ststed.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will hold separate meetings with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Thursday.

SUBOTICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic opened a new production facility of 'Gordon', part of Italian 'Calzedonia Group', in Subotica on Thursday, stressing that Serbia will offer this company the best conditions in the region and noting that the company founder Sandro Veronesi should consider hiring 3,000 instead of the planned 2,000 new employees.

"Ambassador good man, message was for Russians"

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić believes that the U.S. ambassador "sent a message to the Russian side, not to Serbia" when he spoke about Vladimir Putin's visit here.

Michael Kirby spoke for a Belgrade daily and asked why Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to travel to Serbia in October.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has announced that he will on Thursday present a set of reform measures that he said will not be easy, but are very significant for Serbia and its future.

BELGRADE - The French-Serbian Chamber of Commerce presented Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic with the special award for outstanding contribution to the development of bilateral relations between Serbia and France.

The award was presented at the ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the French-Serbian Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic conferred on Wednesday with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexey Meshkov, and stated that Serbia will continue to support the search for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine.

Air Serbia "has chance to become leading Balkan airline"

BELGRADE -- President and CEO of Etihad Airways James Hogan said that Air Serbia has a chance to become the leading airline in the Balkans.

It is crucial for Serbia to continue to build its brand in the air travel industry, he added.