Subotica

VRBAS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Chinese contractors had promised him a high-speed rail line between Novi Sad and Subotica would be finished by end-2024.

SUBOTICA - After eight years, a rail line between the Serbian city of Subotica and the Hungarian city of Szeged was reinstated on Tuesday.

To mark the occasion, Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic welcomed his Hungarian counterpart Janos Lazar at the Palic railway station near Subotica.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday connectivity was crucial for all countries in the region and that the construction of a Nis-Skopje high-speed rail line would bring a different future to the entire region.

Serbian police have detained thousands of migrants within two weeks as a result of daily actions in the northern and eastern regions of the Balkan country, Reuters reported. The arrests are part of a nationwide operation that began two weeks ago after a shooting that left three migrants dead.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Subotica, Serbia in March 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE/Szilard Koszticsak.

"In Brussels they are building a superstate. We say no to a European empire," says the first point in the advertisement, which is headed with the insignia of the Hungarian government and signed at the end by Prime Minister Orban.

He said that a man in the northern city of Subotica had tested positive for the coronavirus, adding that he had been in contact with his sister in Budapest who had respiratory problems. The man self-isolated himself and is now in isolation in hospital in Subotica, the minister said on an extraordinary news conference.

New prices for crossing the highways in Serbia come into force today. The increase in TOL system is 12 per cent and was announced a few months ago. Thus, for the Belgrade-Nis section, the car will pay 900 dinars, instead of 800 as before.

The accident happened Thursday morning around 06:45 CET. The circumstances surrounding the accident are yet unclear. On the scene investigation will be conducted to determine the cause of the crash, daily Blic writes.

"Dacic decided to resume with fabrications and falsifications in relation to Kosovo. After the previous forgeries that returned to him as a boomerang, he presented a document that was prepared who knows where, about the alleged withdrawal of recognition," Pacolli, who serves as Kosovo's foreign minister, wrote to Facebook.

SUBOTICA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic ceremonially opened an Ametek business campus in Subotica, northern Serbia, on Wednesday.

After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Vucic took a tour of the new factory with plant director Dragan Nagulic, Minister of Economy Goran Knezevic, US Ambassador Kyle Scott, Vojvodina PM Igor Mirovic and Assembly Speaker Istvan Pastor.