Latest News from Serbia
Serbia and France to strengthen cooperation
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic and State Secretary for European Affairs of France Harlem Desir pointed to the importance of the two countries' friendly ties and stated that cooperation on various levels will intensify in the time to come.
Vucic to visit Berlin on Monday
BERLIN - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will on Monday pay a one-day visit to Germany, where he will attend a panel discussion on Serbia's path towards the European Union, organised by the Serbia-Germany Forum and the German Foreign Policy Council.
Parliament adopts amendments to Law on BIA
BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament adopted on Sunday the amendments to the Law on Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) which brought the law in line with the Constitution.
The adopted amendments will enter into force on the day of publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia.
SNS: Those who threw objects at Nikolic targeted Serbia
BELGRADE - Those who threw objects at Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic at Gazimestan on Saturday were "in fact targeting Serbia, causing unforeseeable damage to everyone and eroding the reputation of our country", the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has said in a statement.
Bosnia Marks World War One Centennial
The concert by the Vienna Philharmonic in the recently re-opened Vijecnica, the historic Sarajevo City Hall, was the central event to mark the centenary of the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.
Few hundred people could follow the the concert in a plateau on the other side of the river of Miljacka.
Dodik: Further fight for autonomy, independence later
VISEGRAD – Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said on Saturday when opening cultural and historical complex Andricgrad that the Serb people in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) will continue fighting for autonomy, hoping that the political process will eventually result in the independence.
Vucic: Progress and development possible only in peace
ANDRICGRAD - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated on Saturday that Serbia respects everyone and that development and progress can be made only in peace, and added that the country wishes no harm to anyone.
Nikolic: Serbia should pursue prudent policy
GRACANICA - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said at the Monastery of Gracanica on Saturday that Serbia should pursue a prudent policy in Kosovo-Metohija, and underscored that anyone who deems that the future could be built by making war is seriously mistaken.
Strategy on cultural cooperation in region adopted
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac is staying in his first official visit to Macedonia, during which he participated in the Annual Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Culture of South East Europe, during which the Regional strategy on cooperation in the culture sector in South-East European countries was adopted on Saturday.
Mirovic: Messages of hatred heard on St Vitus' Day
BELGRADE - Vice President of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Igor Mirovic condemned on Saturday the messages of open hatred heard at the gathering of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) and the explicit intention to cause political conflicts.
100 years since Assassination at Sarajevo
BELGRADE - Today marks 100 years since the June 28, 1914 assassination at Sarajevo of Archduke of Austria-Este Franz Ferdinand that Austria-Hungary used as an excuse for invading Serbia and starting World War One.
Nikolic: Serbia will continue fighting for its holy land
GAZIMESTAN - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic laid a wreath at the memorial honouring Kosovo heroes at Gazimestan, a monument commemorating the historic Battle of Kosovo.
SRS calls for Seselj's immediate release
BELGRADE - Supporters of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) called on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) during a protest on Saturday to immediately and unconditionally release their leader Vojislav Seselj.
Stefanovic: Crime rate in Belgrade drops by 20 percent
KRUSEVAC - Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs Nebojsa Stefanovic stated on Saturday that the crime rate in Belgrade dropped in the first five months of the year by over 20 percent compared to the same period in 2013.
He also said that the security situation in Serbia is good.
PM expects Barroso to back Serbia's EU entry
OBRENOVAC - Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that he expects that, during Sunday's meeting in Belgrade, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso will give clear backing to Serbia's EU accession.