Serbian Ministry of Education

BELGRADE - Over a hundred Belgrade schools received bomb alerts on Wednesday morning.

According to an official statement released by the Serbian Ministry of Education, the bomb alerts had been sent to 78 primary and 37 secondary schools by email.

"Respecting the rights of Bulgarians in the 'Western regions' (eastern Serbia) is an element of the criteria we observe when it comes to Serbia's negotiations for membership in the European Union." This was stated by Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Milkov to Milena Milotinova in the program "Brussels 1" on "BG on Air".

"I have learned a lot about film-making from these movies and I really wanted to come here to learn how Yugoslavia and Belgrade were like," she added

ZAGREB - Croatia on Friday lifted its veto on the opening of Chapter 26 (education and culture) in Serbia's EU accession talks, Croatian Foreign Minister Davor Ivo Stir told a press conference in Zagreb.

ZAGREB - Croatia on Friday lifted its veto on the opening of Chapter 26 (education and culture) in Serbia's EU accession talks, Croatian Foreign Minister Davor Ivo Stir told a press conference in Zagreb.

Serbian officials have rushed to quash rumours that the only Serbian university in Kosovo could be placed under the control of the Kosovo government.

Pavle Dimitrijevic, head of the Bureau for Social Research, BIRODI, told BIRN that rumours that the University of Pristina could be integated into independent Kosovo's institutions were false.

Albanian pupils and teachers in the southern Serbian municipalities of Presevo and Bujanovac on Tuesday boycotted classes in protest against what they say is the obstruction of textbooks in Albanian by the Serbian Ministry of Education.

BELGRADE - A great challenge lies before the academic community and the University of Belgrade (UB), to give their contribution to the recovery of the country, it was pointed out on Friday at the ceremony marking 206th anniversary of the oldest and largest higher education institution in Serbia.

CERN officials visit Serbia

BELGRADE -- CERN Director of Research Sergio Bertolucci and the organization's international relations adviser, physicist Emmanuel Tsesmelis, have visited Belgrade.

They met with a number of Serbian Ministry of Education officials, and with members of the Commission for Cooperation with CERN, the ministry said on its website.

BELGRADE - Four young programmers from Serbia won three medals at 26th International Olympiad in Informatics that closed in Taipei on Sunday , leader of the Serbian team Nikola Milosavljevic has stated.

The Serbian programmers scooped two silver medals and one bronze at this year's competition whić
brought together 311 participants from 82 countries.