Goran Vesic

Belgrade announces "Beer Fest"

BELGRADE -- The 12th Beer Fest will be held in Ušće Park in Belgrade August 13-17, organizers said at a press conference held on Thursday.

The event was described as "the biggest of its kind in this part of Europe and one of the hallmarks of Belgrade."

BELGRADE - The 12th iteration of Beer Fest - the biggest event of its kind in this part of Europe and one of the hallmarks of Belgrade - will be held in Usce Park on August 13-17, the organisers said at the closing press conference on Thursday.

City of Belgrade to start marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

BELGRADE -- The Belgrade City Assembly decided on Tuesday that May 10 will be marked as a remembrance day for the Holocaust victims in Belgrade.

The session on Tuesday underlined that Jews are an important part of the Serbian capital's history, its present and future, Tanjug reported.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade City Assembly decided on Tuesday that May 10 will be marked as a remembrance day for the Holocaust victims in Belgrade, and underlined during the meeting that the Jews are an important part of the Serbian capital's history, its present and future.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade City Assembly will meet on Monday to discuss the proposed RSD 78.1 billion budget, City Manager Goran Vesic said on Wednesday, announcing that this year will be one of stabilisation for the city's finances.

BELGRADE - Goran Vesic, manager of the City of Belgrade, said Sunday that the number of relief centers in Belgrade will be reduced next week, adding that peak water levels in the capital are dropping today and the banks of the Sava and Danube Rivers are safe.

BELGRADE - Nikola Nikodijevic of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) was elected president of the Belgrade city assembly on Wednesday, by the votes of 84 assembly members.

A total of 102 out of 110 assembly members cast their votes for the new city assembly president.

After the election, Nikodijevic assumed the role of chairman of the constitutive meeting.

BELGRADE - The next mayor of Belgrade will not be elected during the constitutive meeting of the city assembly on Wednesday, but it will be revealed which parties are going to form the new government in the city, secretary of the city's interim authority Goran Vesic has said.

Nebojsa Stefanovic, vice-president of Serbian Progressive Party, which took a majority at the Belgrade local elections last month as well as winning nationwide polls, said that the new mayor should be elected as soon as city’s new parliament holds its first session.

BELGRADE - The president and the secretary of the Belgrade interim authority Sinisa Mali and Goran Vesic have scheduled consultations with the outgoing whips in the Belgrade City Assembly for April 22, Tanjug has learned.