Serbian government

Minister "confident" elections won't slow down Kosovo talks

BELGRADE, PRIŠTINA -- Jadranka Joksimović is confident that parliamentary elections in Kosovo will not hamper the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština.

Steel mill to halt production over Ukraine supplies

SMEDEREVO -- The Smederevo steel mill Železara is set to suspend production for a minimum of three weeks over problems with deliveries of raw materials from Ukraine.

However, it will use the halt to carry out scheduled overhauls, the company's financial director, Bojan Bojković told Tanjug on Friday.

SMEDEREVO - The Smederevo steel mill is set to suspend production for a minimum of three weeks over problems with deliveries of raw materials from Ukraine due to the situation there, but will use the halt to carry out scheduled overhauls, the company's financial director Bojan Bojkovic told Tanjug on Friday.

BELGRADE - The marking of the Day of victory over Nazism in World War II started late Thursday with a ceremonial artillery salute fired from the Sava terrace of the Belgrade Fortress, the Serbian government said in a statement.

THESSALONIKI - Foreign ministers of the EU member states and the Western Balkan countries attending a ministerial conference in Thessaloniki Thursday expressed their support for European integration of the Western Balkan region and announced a EUR 1 billion pre-accession assistance by 2020.

BELGRADE – Serbia’s Minister without Portfolio responsible for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic expressed confidence Thursday that the parliamentary elections in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), scheduled for June 8, will not hamper the dialogue on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted at Thursday's session eight bills in the judiciary sphere, which will be forwarded to the parliament for an urgent debate.

The government adopted the bill on enforcement of criminal sanctions and the bill on enforcement of alternative sanctions, it was stated after the government's session.

BELGRADE – Norwegian Ambassador to Serbia Nils Ragnar Kamsvag opened the 2013/2014 Student Enterprise Fair in Kragujevac on Thursday, a presentation of products and services of over a dozen student companies operating in Serbian cities.

Central bank cuts key policy rate to nine percent

BELGRADE -- The Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Thursday lowered its key policy rate by 0.5 percentage points to nine percent.

BELGRADE - The Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Thursday lowered its key policy rate by 0.5 percentage points to nine percent.