Croatia

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin strongly condemned a statement issued by Croat Josip Juratovic, an MP of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the Bundestag, according to which Serbs in Croatia should not have the right to vote.

Goran Hadzic released, arrives in Serbia

BELGRADE -- Hague Tribunal (ICTY) indictee Goran Hadzic has been granted temporary release and arrived in Belgrade late on Wednesday.

The tribunal decided to release him so he could receive medical treatment, his lawyer Zoran Zivanovic has confirmed.

Equipped with a website, national flag and coat of arms, Vit Jedlicka announced on Monday the creation of the new Balkan state of Liberland.

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations, Miodrag Linta, has urged the EU to request Croatia to start war crimes trials and stop glorifying its military operation "Storm".

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic stated his country sees Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) as one its most important partners, adding that BiH's stability is of great importance for the region.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev began a two-day visit to Zagreb and Croatia on Tuesday, meeting President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic and Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic to discuss issues of mutual economic interest and boost ties.

Plevneliev was the first head of state to visit the Croatian capital since Grabar Kitarovic took office in February.

IMF: Recession to continue throughout 2015

WASHINGTON -- According to latest IMF projections, 2015 will be another recession year for Serbia, with negative growth of -0.5 percent.

2016 should see "recovery" and 1.5 percent growth, according to this.

WASHINGTON - According to latest projections by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2015 will be another recession year for Serbia, with a real GDP growth of a negative -0.5 percent, and recovery, with a positive, 1.5 percent growth, should come in 2016.

Hague Tribunal released Goran Hadzic on temporary freedom

Serbia is interested in joining the Turkish Stream project, Serbian Ambassador to Russia Slavenko Terzic has said.

Hadzic is a former political leader of Serbs in Croatia and has been indicted for war crimes committed in that country from 1991 until 1995.

Velizar Enchev has a degree in journalism from the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski." He was a correspondent of the Bulgarian National Television in former Yugoslavia in the period 1987 - 1993. He was Bulgaria's Ambassador to Croatia in the period 1997 - 2002. After that Enchev was TV host of a broadcast of SKAT TV.