Serbia's government

Aleksandar Vucic, who has been given another mandate to head Serbia's government, will make his final decision on its composition "by the end of next week."

"This is very bad for refugees. This place helped me a lot when I came to Serbia," Arman, 23-year-old refugee from Afghanistan said as construction workers razed part of Miksaliste, an aid centre in Belgrade that offers food and other supplies to refugees from the Middle East.

Serbia's government said it was declaring an emergency situation as a preventive measure, so that the authorities can react fast in saving lives and repairing damage caused by floods.

"The government will have daily meetings of the headquarters for emergency situations, and will continuously follow the situation in the field and inform citizens about it," it said.

Serbia's government on Thursday fired Aleksandar Obradovic, a member of the ruling Progressive Party, for purchasing two Audis for the company in defiance of the belt-tightening measures introduced by the government.

Obradovic had been head of the Serbian power company since 2012.

Serbia won't close its borders to migrants, the country's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said.

Instead, Serbia will do its best to help migrants arriving at its borders, Vucic has said in an interview with German daily newspaper Handelsblatt, Serbian news agency Tanjug reported on Tuesday.

Serbia's government on Thursday started technical talks with IMF representatives, led by James Roaf, on the second review of the IMF stand-by arrangement worth 1.2 billion euro.

In recent days, Serbia has said it will try obtain an agreement with the IMF to raise salaries and pensions.

But Muhamed Busatlija, an economist, said that was unlikely.

Serbia's government has signed a memorandum of understanding with German food industry giant Toennies Lebensmittel.

Clemens Toennies, head of the Toennies meat group, announced that his company would soon build the first 5 of a total of 20 pig farms in the country, according to Serbian daily Dnevnik, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.

BELGRADE - There is no need for (Kosovo Foreign Minister Hasim) Taci to come to Belgrade, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday in response to the announcements according to which Taci should visit Belgrade in late April.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia's government would decide who won an important bid to manage a troubled steel mill on Tuesday.

HELSINKI - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic began a one-day visit to Finland on Monday by taking part in a business forum organised by the Finnish national agency Finpro, which represents 550 Finnish companies.