Aleksandar Vulin

Migrant crisis: EU asked to increase financial assistance

Aleksandar Vulin has asked the EU to increase financial assistance to Serbia intended for the care of migrants, but also help in controlling borders.

The head of the Serbian Minister of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs made this statement on Thursday in Brussels, where he met with EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos.

Official resigns for letting his brother use government car

State Secretary in the Ministry of Labor, Social and Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Jablanovic has resigned over a case of abuse of an official government vehicle.

Minister Aleksandar Vulin said that a commission previously determined this, and that he accepted the resignation, and added that "nobody committing a violation will be protected" in his ministry.

"Those who back Pristina's actions are responsible for them"

Aleksandar Vulin says the U.S. embassy in Pristina is, rather than safeguarding peace, justifying announcements of violence and threats of weapons.

The embassy also "called for a violation of the Brussels agreement," the Serbian minister of labor, social and veteran affairs said on Monday in Belgrade, according to Tanjug.

Minister denies forcible deportations of migrants

Minister of Labor and Social and Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Vulin said on Tuesday that Serbia is not forcibly deporting illegal migrants from its territory.

When asked by reporters to comment on UNHCR's "data" about "some states illegally deporting migrants," Vulin said the state of Serbia has not forcibly returned any of the migrants to their countries.

Serbia's unemployment rate down to 13.8 pct

BELGRADE - Serbia's unemployment rate is down to 13.8 pct, PM Aleksandar Vucic and Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin have said in the parliament.

In Monday's debate on the 2017 budget bill, Vucic said that, after declining to 15.2 pct, the unemployment rate had dropped further to 13.8 pct in the last quarter.

Vulin receives Swedish ambassador

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin on Tuesday received Swedish Ambassador to Serbia Jan Lundin, who commended Serbia's economic progress and its government's success in labour market reforms and cutting down the unemployment rate.

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