Dragan Djilas

Serbia's pro-government weekly newspaper Ekspres has published an interview with Sreten Jocic, a.k.a. Joca Amsterdam, a convicted criminal, in which he accused Aleksandar Rodic, publisher of the rival daily tabloid Kurir, of working to bring down President Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - Mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandic said Thursday that there is a more positive feel in the relations between Serbia and Croatia, and particularly between the two capitals.

He added that he has not encountered any problems in the cooperation with Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali, nor with Dragan Djilas while he was the mayor of the Serbian capital.

Rights group Amnesty International said in a new report published on Wednesday that three years after the forced eviction of more than 200 Roma families from the Belville settlement in Belgrade, the city authorities have failed to use 3.6 million euro in European Commission funds to adequately rehouse them.

BELGRADE - The Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS) strongly opposes the admission of Kosovo to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), KSS President Dragan Djilas and Secretary General Andrej Kleut said during a meeting they had with key people at FIBA in Munich on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The heads of the Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS) and the Basketbal Federation of Republika Srpska (KSRS) signed an agreement on cooperation in Belgrade Friday.

NOVI SAD - The Assembly of Vojvodina on Wednesday relieved Goran Jesic of his duties as the province's deputy prime minister and secretary for agriculture, water resource management and forestry.

Jesic is a deputy leader of the Democratic Party (DS) who has joined the Vojvodina government at the invitation of Prime Minister Bojan Pajtic.

BELGRADE - Bojan Pajtic has been elected the new president of the Democratic Party (DS), replacing its former leader Dragan Djilas, his sole rival.

A total of 1,461 delegates backed Pajtic at the party's electoral assembly meeting on Saturday, while 1,277 voted for Djilas.

Ahead of DS election assembly on May 21 All want Ruzica Djindjic

These days there was fighting over Ruzica Djindjic’s support. Both candidates for the party president – Dragan Djilas and Bojan Pajtic – want her to be on their side.

Members of the Democratic Party and New Party have asked the speaker of parliament, Maja Gojkovic, to schedule a parliamentary session to discuss the alleged failure of state and local institutions to prevent the devastating flooding that forced 31,879 people from their homes.

BELGRADE – Serbia’s opposition Democratic Party (DS) Monday tabled a motion before Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic for the holding of a special meeting to discuss all developments during the heavy flooding in the country in the last 15 days.