Latest News from Serbia
Serbia returns to Junior Eurovision Song Contest
BELGRADE - Serbia returns to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest after a three-year absence.
The Radio and Television of Serbia confirmed that it will send a representative to the 12th Junior Eurovision Song Contest, adding that the manner in which the Serbian entry will be selected is to be announced at a later date.
"Improve alignment with EU foreign policy"
"Improve alignment with EU foreign policy"
BELGRADE -- Italy’s Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini said on Monday she expected Serbia to improve the level of alignment of its foreign policy with that of the EU.
According to Tanjug, her Serbian counterpart Ivica Dačić, who received her in Belgrade, said that Serbia was "already working on it."
Keefe: We are setting no ultimatums for Serbia
BELGRADE - Serbia can have a very positive role in regional stability in the Western Balkans, in reforms in the process of European integration, as well as during its OSCE chairmanship, and the West is setting no ultimatums regarding the country's position on Russia, British Ambassador to Serbia Denis Keefe has said.
WB expert: Public company directors need to be dismissed
BELGRADE - The directors of public companies need to be dismissed and the management should be entrusted to professionals who will make the companies profitable, said the World Bank chief economist for Serbia Lazar Sestovic.
Serbia's public companies continue to generate losses and request aid from the budget, Sestovic told the Radio and Television of Serbia.
Media privatization by 2015
BELGRADE - Media bills that the Serbian government has adopted envisage that the media privatization will be completed by July 1, 2015, the subscription charges for public service broadcasters will be scrapped, and they will be financed through a license fee as of 2016, State Secretary at the ministry of culture and information Sasa Mirkovic told Tanjug.
Serbia Introduces Tax for Public Service Broadcaster
From January 2016, people in Serbia will be obliged to pay a tax to fund the public service broadcasters RTS and RTV, according to new legislation approved by the government on Sunday.
"Kosovo army would be threat to Serbia and region"
"Kosovo army would be threat to Serbia and region"
NOVI SAD -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić says the creation of the so-called army of Kosovo would be a threat to Serbia's stability and the stability in the region.
According to him, Kosovo and Metohija remains the country's biggest security threat.
Mogherini meets with Dacic in Belgrade
BELGRADE - Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini began her visit to Belgrade on Monday with a meeting with Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic.
Later in the day, Mogherini will confer with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, and Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic.