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Debt-laden Serbia braces for painful reforms
With one in five people unemployed and pensioners outnumbering those in work, Serbia is struggling with a record budget deficit and could sink into bankruptcy.
Vucic: We will not give up on reforms
BELGRADE - The Serbian government will not give up on reforms, as the country needs them badly to get out of the vicious circle and move on and change, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said.
“Simply put, Serbia has to begin to work,” Vucic wrote in a lengthy article, titled “Action Now”, which appeared in the Saturday edition of Belgrade-based daily Informer.
There was no diplomatic pressure to form working group
BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Thursday there had been no diplomatic pressure to form a working group to investigate the incidents in which the US and German embassies in Belgrade were set on fire in 2008.
Faktor plus: SNS rating stable, slight rise of SRS
BELGRADE - The latest survey conducted by Faktor Plus polling agency shows stable support for the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), and a slight rise of the opposition Serbian Radical Party (SRS), which is still under the 5 percent threshold.
Security experts from Belgrade, Pristina and Tirana work to improve co-operation
Security experts from Belgrade, Pristina and Tirana work to improve co-operation
Vucic satisfied with visit to Paris
PARIS - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated on Thursday, upon concluding his one-day visit to Paris, that he is very satisfied with the visit and that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls expressed the determination of Paris to make a big return to the Western Balkans and Serbia, a task in which Serbia is ready to provide assistance.
Working group to establish circumstances of embassy burning
BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic set up the Working group tasked with establishing the exact circumstances concerning the incidents in which the Embassies of the U.S. and Germany were burnt in Belgrade after the protest against the declaration of Kosovo-Metohija independence unilaterally declared by ethnic Albanians in the southern Serbian province in February 2008.
Greece sends aid for Serbian flood victims
BELGRADE - The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent EUR 200,000 worth of aid for flood victims in Serbia, the Greek embassy in Belgrade said in a statement on Thursday.
News agency editor assaulted in Belgrade
News agency editor assaulted in Belgrade
BELGRADE -- The FoNet news agency has announced that its editor Davor Pašalić was assaulted and brutally beaten by hooligans.
The agency said that Pašalić was attacked by three men in the night between Wednesday and Thursday near his apartment in New Belgrade.
Djuric,Burkhard discuss issues of displaced persons,refugees
BELGRADE - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Serbia will continue cooperating with state institutions on the issues of refugees and displaced persons, Head of Mission Peter Burkhard said in talks with Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric.
Number of childbirths below wartime levels
BELGRADE - The number of childbirths in Serbia in 2013 was lower than during the Balkan wars, World War I or World War II, demographer Goran Penev said on Thursday, adding that the economic situation in the country must be improved for the birth rate to increase.
Vojvodina MPs adopt final annual budget account for 2013
NOVI SAD - The Vojvodina Assembly adopted on Wednesday by a majority vote the final annual budget account for 2013 and the report on its enforcement.
Out of the 89 MPs who attended the session, 65 MPs voted in favour of the document, while the others were against its adoption.
Linta: Croatia is responsible for "technical vacuum"
BELGRADE - Head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta said on Wednesday the responsibility for the "technical vacuum" in the relations between Serbia and Croatia lay on the Croatian side.
Leaders of three parties discuss situation in Vojvodina
NOVI SAD - Leaders of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) Nenad Canak, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) Istvan Pastor and New Democratic Party (NDS) Boris Tadic agreed that changes to the constitutional and legal position of the Serbian province of Vojvodina are needed.
Udovicki: Comprehensive reforms ahead for Serbia
BERLIN - Comprehensive public administration reforms and fiscal consolidation - including painful measures - are ahead for Serbia, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Kori Udovicki, who is also minister of state administration and local self-government, said in Berlin on Monday.