Beta

We have to be aware that the situation in the Western Balkans is still fragile, but the EU leaders will support the region's path to the Union in March.

Eight investors from Serbia and abroad have declared interest in the privatization of Belgrade-based farming company PKB.

The Serbian Ministry of Economy announced this on Thursday, Beta reported.

The procedure for the privatization of the pharmaceutical company Galenika through the model of strategic partnership should be declared unsuccessful.

The commission for the implementation of strategic partnership on proposed this to the Serbian government on Wednesday, th Ministry for Economy announced, Beta reported.

The chairman of the Serbian Assembly's Committee on Kosovo says he finds the statements of the new U.S. secretary of defense about Kosovo "worrying."

BELGRADE - Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has said that Serbia was "arming Serbs in the north, as part of a plan to partition Kosovo."

Thaci spoke for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle when he made this claim, Beta reported on Wednesday.

With the corruption perception index of 42, Serbia is still considered a country with a high level of corruption, in 72nd place among 176 countries.

Transparency Serbia (TS) stated this on Wednesday, Beta has reported.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has said that Serbia was "arming Serbs in the north, as part of a plan to partition Kosovo."

Thaci spoke for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle when he made this claim, Beta reported on Wednesday.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told a Belgrade newspaper that Serbia will not open its embassies in the three Baltic countries this year.

"That has not been planned in the budget, there's no money," Dacic told the daily Danas, Beta has reported.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will most likely visit Sarajevo in February 2017, Beta reported on Wednesday.

Nikolic has been invited by the current chairman of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mladen Ivanic.

German parliament's EU affairs committee chair, Gunther Krichbaum, has said that bilateral disputes have no place in "European processes."

Speaking in Belgrade on Tuesday after his meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Krichbaum added he was "optimistic" that Serbia will soon open chapters 23 and 24 in EU accession negotiations, Beta agency reported.