Nikola Jovanovic

Special units and police patrols are located at almost every city intersection, Sputnik reporter informs. The main highway is blocked for traffic, and the police are redirecting vehicles so that it is not possible to pass through Budva to Jaz and further in the direction of the Bay of Kotor.

Parties in the opposition Alliance for Serbia are united in opposing the Progressive-led government - but not united on whether to participate in upcoming elections.

A majority of representatives have hinted that a boycott might be the best solution.

According to media reports, supporters of the Alliance for Serbia (SzS) gathered in front of the building, along with a large number of reporters.

Responding to criticism from opposition Alliance for Serbia councilor Nikola Jovanovic, who said the same amount that was planned for a 120-meter flagpole was envisaged in the budget for 2019, Vesic told reporters:

BELGRADE - European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn spoke with officials of a number of Serbian opposition parties at the seat of the EU Delegation to Belgrade on Thursday.

Serbian National Assembly President Maja Gojkovic will be formally asked in the coming days to request OSCE's monitoring of the local elections in Belgrade.

The People's Party (NS) Vice President Nikola Jovanovic announced this in a written statement, adding that the proposal has been formulated in cooperation with the Movement of Free Citizens.

The People's Party (Narodna Stranka) has been founded in Belgrade; former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has been elected as the new party's leader.

At the Founding Assembly, in the presence of 352 delegates, Jeremic was unanimously elected as the party's president.

BELGRADE - The BUNT music festival will be held November 2-14 on multiple locations in Belgrade, a press conference at the French Institute was told Monday.

Composer Ivana Stefanovic said that this year's BUNT will be dedicated to young artists and people with special needs, who will also participate.

Serbia's proposal that China and Serbia abolish visas between the two countries could lead to a boom in tourism to Serbia, former Serbian ambassador to China Slobodan Unkovic said.

"If this proposal passes, combined with the proposal to open Belgrade-Beijing flights and a Belgrade-Shanghai link, it could lead to the major boost in Serbian tourism," Unkovic told BIRN on Monday.

As a country and region "we are in the eye of a hurricane, politically and geographically between two monumental crises dramatically changing our way of being."

This is what the program director CIRSD - the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) think-tank - Nikola Jovanovic wrote in an opinion piece published by Belgrade daily Politika.