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Screening on Serbia's regional policy starts Wednesday
BELGRADE/BRUSSELS - The explanatory screening for Chapter 22 is scheduled to start in Brussels on Wednesday tabling regional policy and coordination of structural instruments comprising the regulations on planning and implementation of the EU cohesion policy and realization of the Europe 2020 strategic goals by means of European structural and investment funds.
Vucic: All obligations on EU path to be met by end of 2018
BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that Serbia is doing its utmost for the benefit of its citizens and that he is confident that the EU member states will not be able to reject Serbia's bid for full membership in the Union.
Without a doubt, the path of European integrations is the best possible path for Serbia, Vucic said.
Cooperation with Germany to aid efficiency in agricultulture
BELGRADE - Serbia and the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg have reached agreement on the realization of a number of projects aimed to increase efficiency of Serbia's agriculture and food industry, implementation of European environmental protection standards, and cooperation between institutions of higher education.
Dacic: Serbia has greatest number of refugees in Europe
GENEVA - Serbia is the country with the largest number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe, which is why it needs international assistance, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said at the 65th session of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva on Tuesday.
Fiscal Council: Deficit at 8.5%, public debt at 71% of GDP
BELGRADE - The Fiscal Council of Serbia released on Tuesday that the country's deficit could total RSD 147 billion or around 8.5 percent of the GDP, while the public debt added up to EUR 22.4 billion or around 71 percent of the GDP at the end of August 2014, which constitutes a EUR 1.66 billion increase since the beginning of the year.
One-third of Serbian adults are smokers
BELGRADE - One-third of Serbian adults are smokers, including as much as 13 percent of the young, while 63.4 percent of children are still exposed to environmental tobacco smoke in their homes, participants of the conference 'Twinning project: Improving tobacco control in the Republic of Serbia' said on Tuesday.
Joint investigative teams of police and prosecutors
BELGRADE - Strengthening the investigative capacities of prosecutors and the police through joint investigations and creation of joint investigative teams in keeping with the European practice constitutes one of the recommendations of the EU and the Council of Europe with a view to increasing the efficiency of the fight against corruption in Serbia.
Association calls for truth about Albanian, Serb victims
BELGRADE - The Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo-Metohija from 1998 to 2000 has welcomed the request of the War Crime Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade to investigate another location in Batajnica, Belgrade suburban area, which could be a mass grave of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1999 conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija.