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BELGRADE - Competitiveness in the labor market, infrastructure as well as energy prices and stability of energy supplies are some of the factors bringing foreign investors to Serbia, Foreign Investors Council Executive Director Aleksandar Ljubic said on Tuesday, noting that energy would be the key factor in the future.

A return to fiscal discipline in 2024, with no margin for extraordinary benefits, as well as a gradual abolition of support measures against energy hikes, is the European Commission's fiscal guidance to be delivered to EU finance ministers on Monday and Tuesday.

BUDAPEST - Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday the EU must be aware it needed the Western Balkans more than ever and added that, for its part, Hungary was able to accelerate accession processes in terms of the security policy.

BUDAPEST - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday the EU enlargement policy must be revitalised with the idea that countries must become members based on set criteria.

Speaking at a ministerial panel of the Budapest Balkans Forum, Dacic noted that there was a crisis of EU accession criteria.

The international community and the European Union should be generous in pledging financial support to Türkiye for the reconstruction of the country after two devastating earthquakes, a senior Turkish official has said, days before a donors' conference will be held in Brussels.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi on Tuesday, noting that rule of law reforms, especially those related to the judiciary and media, were her government's priority.

BRUSSELS - Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic met on Monday in Brussels with EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson to discuss implementation of an EU action plan for the Western Balkans aimed at solving joint challenges in the field of irregular migration, strengthening of border management and advancement of cooperation in readmission.

The European Union is poised to turn on its subsidies tap again, this time to counter U.S. clean energy aid, after already doling out billions in the last three years to businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine.

Sweden's permanent representative to the EU, Lars Danielsson, whose country has taken over the rotating presidency of the Union since January 1, has said that he will not initiate a vote on Bulgaria and Romania's Schengen admission in the EU Council until an agreement is reached with the countries that opposed of their accession.

European Union government health officials will hold talks on Wednesday on a coordinated response to the surge in Covid-19 infections in China, the Swedish EU presidency said on Monday, after December talks concluded with no decisions on the matter.