OBRENOVAC

"This factory employs 3,000 people today. I was amazed at what they showed me, but for that, we need to have trained people who can make progress" Vucic told the young workers of the factory.

According to Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali, this investment is worth about 100 million euros.

As announced, works to build the new plant will start at the end of February or early March.

According to Mali, the new, 55,000-square meter premises will be built by September or October, while the existing and the new plant will employ a total of 2,500 workers.

Serbian officials say they have uncovered a stockpile of highly toxic waste materials illegally buried in containers at a private property near the capital, Belgrade.

OBRENOVAC - Implementation of a project to build an exhaust desulphurisation facility at the TENT A coal-fired power plant in Obrenovac began on Monday.

Minister of Energy Aleksandar Antic said the project would be completed in the final quarter of 2022.

1,160 kilograms of narcotics and other psychoactive substances have been burned in the Nikola Tesla power plant in Belgrade's municipality of Obrenovac.

The drugs had been confiscated by the police over the past period.

Police Director Vladimir Rebic, who was present at the power plant, specified that the narcotics destroyed today consisted mostly of marijuana and heroin.

1,160 kilograms of narcotics and other psychoactive substances have been burned in the Nikola Tesla power plant in Belgrade's municipality of Obrenovac.

The drugs had been confiscated by the police over the past period.

OBRENOVAC - Serbia's national electric power company EPS has completed a project of modernising the monitoring and management system at the Nikola Tesla B coal-fired power plant (TENT-B) in Obrenovac, one of the largest power plants in Serbia.

BARIC - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday attended the start of works to build a Corridor 11 motorway section that will connect the Belgrade suburban municipalities of Surcin and Obrenovac.

He noted he was grateful to Chinese friends, with whom a 208 mln euro contract had been signed after long negotiations he said had not been easy.

Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday attended the start of works to build a 17.6-kilometer Corridor 11 highway section.

It will connect Belgrade's suburban municipalities of Surcin and Obrenovac, Tanjug is reporting.

OBRENOVAC - The European Commission's Director General for Enlargement Christian Danielsson toured on Friday the Nikola Tesla power plant complex in Obrenovac and underscored on the occasion the EU's strong support for the modernisation of Serbia.

With the opening of another two chapters in the EU accession process on Monday, Serbia will make further steps forward, Danielsson said.