Geography of Serbia

During the evening hours, the rain on Zlatibor turned into a strong snowstorm, and there is also a blizzard on Kopaonik, which at 6 a.m. was the coldest in the country with minus eight degrees Celsius.
Competent road services are on standby, and duty teams with heavy machinery will be sent to the ground.

53 winter service truck vehicles on the streets of Belgrade

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met on Monday with an IMF Mission headed by Donal McGettigan as part of the first review under Serbia's current standby arrangement with the IMF, agreed in December 2022.

KRALJEVO - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday the global situation was becoming increasingly complex and increasingly difficult because no end to the Ukraine war was on the horizon, and noted that, as a small country, Serbia must find a place for itself and survive.

BELGRADE - Serbia registered 18.5 pct more tourist visits in February 2023 relative to the same month of last year and the number of overnight stays was up by 21.5 pct y-o-y, according to figures released by the national statistical office.

Overnight stays generated by Serbian tourists were up by 8.5 pct y-o-y, while those generated by foreign tourists were up by 44.6 pct y-o-y.

President of Serbia visited Novi Pazar, where he attended the marking of the start of works on the reconstruction and extension of the "Novi Pazar" General Hospital.
Vui will then visit the rural tourist farm "Toplina due" in the village of Pavlica.
An address to the citizens of Kraljevo is scheduled at 6 p.m.

BELGRADE - North Macedonian PM Dimitar Kovacevski said on Friday in Belgrade the cooperation between Serbia and North Macedonia was at its highest point since the two countries had become independent.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed on Thursday an agreement on a 175 mln euro grant for the construction of a Belgrade-Nis high-speed rail line.

The amount is the second tranche of a 600 mln euro EU grant for the project.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali and European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice President for the Western Balkans Lilyana Pavlova agreed on Thursday joint projects were progressing well and were being carried out without problems.

Mali and Pavlova discussed projects underway in Serbia in collaboration with the EIB and the dynamics of their implementation.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic met with Lucia Puttrich, minister of federal and European affairs of the German state of Hesse, in Belgrade on Monday, expressing readiness for stepping up cooperation with German states.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met on Monday with Lucia Puttrich, minister of federal and European affairs of the German state of Hesse.

Brnabic noted that the level of Serbia's relations with Hesse was high and that she especially appreciated the substantial trade volume between the two sides.