Latest News from Serbia
EU official: "Land swap possible"; Dacic: Taxes first
The Serbian foreign minister and first deputy PM told the daily Blic that Pristina - who last November introduced 100 percent taxes on goods from central Serbia, deadlocking the Kosovo dialogue - should make the first move.
Ambassador blasts media for "scandalous Notre-Dame coverage"
Mondoloni said they presented the fire as punishment for raising the Kosovo flag on the cathedral on the anniversary of the end of World War I.
Belgrade to consider countermeasures against Pristina
The Serbian president and leader of the ruling SNS party told a party gathering in Belgrade that he would face a request to recognize a full independence of Kosovo, without divisions and "full and integral territory of an independent Kosovo."
Bosnia, Serbia Unlikely to Copy Belgium’s Genocide Denial Law
The Srebrenica massacres were classified as genocide by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice.
Kosovo Widens Oliver Ivanovic Murder Investigation
Oliver Ivanovic. Photo: EPA-EFE/Andrej Cukic.
Syle Hoxha, the prosecutor working on the Oliver Ivanovic murder case, told BIRN on Tuesday that the probe has been widened to include two further suspects with possible links to organised crime.
Serbian foreign minister travels to Moscow
Dacic will meet with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, the Serbian government has announced.
Serbian president prepares to meet with Russian counterpart
Vucic and Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Beijing during the Belt and Road forum. Vucic said today that he is honored to be meeting again with Putin.
BIRN Fact Check: Serbian Officials Play Numbers Game with Rallies
Protesters wave Serbian flags during a protest walk in Belgrade on April 13. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKIC
"Berlin has proposal that's not to Pristina's advantage"
"Most likely, it will be proposed that Serbia gets some sort of sovereignty in certain territories of Kosovo," the Pristina-based newspaper said, reiterating that Germany opposes the idea of "border corrections."
Report: Vucic to decide on elections after Berlin and China
According to the article, Vucic has held spoken with his closest associates to tell them he did not would not accept any ultimatums of the opposition. They are not asking for people to live better, they have tycoon terms, Vucic told his associates on Monday, Blic writes.
Serbia and Russia to build nuclear research center
The documents were signed in Sochi, RF, by Serbian Minister of Innovation and Technological Development Nenad Popovic and Russia's Rosatom nuclear energy corporation CEO Alexei Likhachev.
Vucic: Serbs, it's time to unite
The president emphasized that this particularly refers to our interests in Kosovo and Metohija, as well as throughout the region.
Serbia set to issue building permits for TurkStream pipeline
Afterwards, construction works on the stretch will be officially opened, Brnabic told a press conference after the governments of Serbia and Hungary held a joint session in Subotica, northern Serbia, Tanjug is reporting.
"Settle Serbia with Hungarians? There's not enough at home"
"I hear there is an opposition politician who says that many Hungarians will move to Serbia. Unfortunately, we do not have enough Hungarians even at home," Orban said, when asked by journalist to comment about Trifunovic's remark, made during the opposition rally on Saturday.
Hungary is our greatest friend in EU - Serbian FM
The Serbian foreign minister and first deputy PM said this in SUbotica, where a joint session of the two governments is being held, and where he met with Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto.