Geography of Serbia

BELGRADE - The key task of the future government will be embodied in the public finance consolidation and all legislative measures and other activities will be carried out to this end, Minister of Regional Development and Local Self-Government and acting Minister of Economy Igor Mirovic said.

The EU rule-of-law mission said it had assisted local police in the arrest of the 32-year-old in Zupce/Zupc on Friday.

“The arrested suspect was taken to EULEX Mitrovica Logbase for further questioning. The arrest warrant was requested by UNMIK in 2011,” EULEX noted.

Five drown in river after traffic accident

ZVEČAN -- Five person died on Friday morning after their car drove off the road and into the Ibar River in northern Kosovo, it has been confirmed.

The accident happened on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavić road, near Savina Stena, in the Zvečan municipality.

ZVECAN - Eulex is continuing the policy of disrespecting the request of legitimate Kosovo Serb representatives that the Kosovo police be recognised as the sole institution responsible for security and implementing the rule of law in northern Kosovo-Metohija, officials of the four municipalities in the north of the province and the Kosovo police in Region North have concluded after an extraordin

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's minister in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), has said on Thursday that a new Serbian government, which should be formed by the end of the month, will not change its policy on the southern province.

BELGRADE - Action movie star Steven Seagal will present himself to Belgrade’s audience in a different light at the Sava Centar cultural center on June 24, when he will throw a musical performance with a blues band of his own.

BELGRADE - Metalac and Plazma have been the best brands in Serbia in the last ten years, it was announced at a ceremony in Belgrade, during which the winners of the 10th "Best from Serbia" award were declared.

This year, 175 brands applied for this prestigious recognition, and 23 winners were declared for 2013, including the best commodity and corporate brand in the previous decade.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said the country’s “constitutionality and legality encompasses the whole of its territory, a country with functional and democratic institutions, based on all-inclusiveness.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will confer with former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Belgrade on Thursday.

Vucic and Schroeder will discuss deepening of cooperation and improvement of bilateral relations. The meeting will take place in the Serbia-Germany Forum Association.

BELGRADE - Myriam Ferran, head of the unit for Serbia at the European Commission, voiced satisfaction on Wednesday about the pace of work on Chapter 24, which deals with justice, freedom and security, and offered the Interior Ministry (MUP) support for preparations for EU membership talks.