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Media content co-financing bids to be called soon
Media content co-financing bids to be called soon
BELGRADE -- Serbia's Ministry of Culture and Information should issue invitations to tender for co-financing media projects after the New Year and Christmas holidays.
Analysis of redundancy in administration to come soon
BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Administration and Local Government Kori Udovicki said on Friday an analysis of the locations and numbers of redundant employees in public administration would be completed in one month.
"It is going to be a comprehensive analysis. We are working hard on it and have obtained the first results," she told Radio and Television of Serbia.
Analysis of redundancy in administration "soon"
Analysis of redundancy in administration "soon"
BELGRADE -- Kori Udovicki said on Friday an analysis of the locations and numbers of redundant employees in public administration would be completed in one month.
Udovicki serves as minister of administration and local government.
Antic: New energy law will bring investors
BELGRADE - The new energy law will throw the door open wide to investors to put money in the energy sector in Serbia, Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic said in the parliament Friday.
"Tabloids generate hatred and intolerance"
"Tabloids generate hatred and intolerance"
BELGRADE -- A small number of printed media and internet portals in Serbia generate messages of hatred and intolerance, "but there is no adequate way to stop that."...
Minister presents new energy law draft to assembly
Minister presents new energy law draft to assembly
BELGRADE -- Serbia's new energy law will "hrow the door open wide to investors to put money in the energy sector in Serbia," Aleksandar Antic said in the parliament Friday.
Banking sector in Serbia has EUR 27.5 billion
BELGRADE - Banks in Serbia had a total of EUR 27.475 billion in October this year, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has said in a statement.
Nikolic to have separate meetings with Wilhelm, Kirby Monday
BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet with the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Serbia, Heinz Wilhelm, on Monday, the president's press office has said in a release.
FM confirms Serbian cabinet will be reshuffled
FM confirms Serbian cabinet will be reshuffled
BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that there will be changes in the Serbian government by the end of January, "that is, the beginning of February."
"There will be a reshuffle, because (PM Aleksandar) Vucic likes it that way," he told the Belgrade-based Pink broadcaster.
'They Never Had It Better?' exhibition opens on Saturday
BELGRADE - 'They Never Had It Better?', an exhibition focusing on the modernization of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, will open at the Museum of Yugoslav History in Belgrade on December 27.
First Serbian business investment forum in UAE in January
BELGRADE - In collaboration with the Serbian embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Serbian Business Council will organise the First Serbian Business and Investment Forum in the UAE from January 25 through 30.
Coal production resumes in Tamnava West Field
Coal production resumes in Tamnava West Field
LAZAREVAC -- Coal is being mined again in the Tamnava - West Field (Zapadno polje) strip mine, "the most significant open pit of the Kolubara mining basin," Tanjug reported.
This section of the mine was flooded in May.
Coal production in Tamnava resumes
KOLUBARA - Coal is being mined again in the Tamnava - Zapadno polje mine pit, the most significant open pit of the Kolubara mining basin which was inundated in the May flooding.
The production in the open pit was restarted in the presence of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who said that the Serbian energy system will be stable and that there will be no restrictions.
New law on energy is in line with EU legislation
BELGRADE - The energy bill the parliament will discuss on Friday should bring Serbia's regulations in that field in line with EU legislation.
The new bill is proposed in order to harmonise Serbian legislation with that of the EU in a comprehensive and efficient way and solve problems noticed in practice, according to the argumentation for the bill.
Kirby: 2015 will show how reforms work in practice
BELGRADE - U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michel Kirby has said that 2015 will show how reforms and new laws work in practice, and pointed to low economic growth as the key issue for Serbia.