Economy of Belgrade

BELGRADE - Construction of a Belgrade metro is a project that must involve both the city and the government of Serbia, City Manager Goran Vesic said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a national conference on property and infrastructure development, Vesic said the construction of a metro - talked about in the capital since the 1970s and initially promised in 2008 and 2009 - was certain.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday attended the presentation of a subway project for Belgrade, prepared by the city authorities.

The presentation was also attended by Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali, representatives of the French construction companies Alstom and Egis, as well as the French Ambassador to Serbia, Christine Moro.

"Let's Not Drown Belgrade", the Serbian campaigning movement opposed to the controversial Belgrade Waterfront development, is staging another protest on Thursday as it continues its drive to seek official responsibility for the night-time demolition of sites presumably intended to make way for the development.

The Main Railway Station Belgrade Center in Prokop was opened to traffic on Tuesday, nearly 40 years after the start of its construction, Tanjug has reported.

It is expected that the complete relocation of the current main station, located in central Belgrade, to Prokop, will take about a year.

Bitter divisions in Serbia over the development of the Belgrade Waterfront are the subject of a major investigative feature in Thursday's UK Guardian. The mega-development of the city's long neglected Danube bank has split Belgrade, the article recalls.

FINALLY Belgrade Waterfront cornerstone laid

The construction of Belgrade Waterfront started on Sunday by laying the foundation stone for two residential towers in Belgrade downtown, on the River Sava.

The construction of Belgrade Waterfront started on Sunday by laying the foundation stone for two residential towers in Belgrade downtown, on the River Sava.

The project is worth EUR 3.5 billion, Tanjug reported.

Police laid charges against four journalists from the Istinomer.rs news site and a campaigner against the Belgrade Waterfront project on Friday after preventing them from filming on the Sava riverbank ahead of the project's official opening at the weekend.

After the Serbian government published the contract for the Belgrade Waterfront project on Sunday, the protest group "Let's not Drown Belgrade" said it showed Serbia was giving up its sovereignty because it had committed itself not to pass laws that conflict with the contract.

The Belgrade Free Zone was officially established on Thursday, offering many facilities to investors on two locations totaling around 98 hectares.

Also established during a Belgrade City Council session was a limited liability company that will manage the Belgrade Free Zone.