Geography of Vojvodina

BELGRADE - The Danube Day campaign, conducted jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection - Republic Directorate for Water and the Coca Cola System, will this year be aimed at raising funds for the flood-affected regions, the organizers announced on Monday.

FM to attend third annual EUSDR meeting

BELGRADE -- First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić will head the Serbian delegation at the Third Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR).

The meeting is taking place in Vienna Thursday and Friday.

BELGRADE - Danube Competence Center (DCC) representatives presented on Friday the winning projects in a competition titled "Tourism and Biodiversity" aimed at making the best use of the biodiversity potential in the tourist offer of the Middle and Lower Danube River basin.

The level of the Bulgarian stretch of the Danube river is slightly decreasing, head of the Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the river Georgi Georgiev informed.

BELGRADE - The World Wildlife Fund in Serbia (WWF) released on Friday that a unified and more transparent approach needs to be taken on in flood management and added that the former flood areas need to be connected to rivers.

BELGRADE/OBRENOVAC - The water from the flooded Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac may subside in around five days and as of Sunday, the level of the Sava River may be expected to drop, the National Emergency Management Headquarters stated at the session on Friday.

BELGRADE - There are no threatened areas in Belgrade, the Danube level increased by two centimeters in the last 24 hours, while the Sava level went up by one centimeter, Milos Milovanovic, director of the public water management company Beogradvode, told Tanjug on Friday.

Flooded areas slowly normalize, 4 more days on standby

BELGRADE -- The night has passed peacefully in the flooded areas of Serbia, while the overall situation is stable without any critical locations identified.

Authorities and citizens will be on standby for four more days due to an announced surge wave on the Danube.

SREMSKA MITROVICA - The situation along the swollen rivers and watercourses in the municipalities of Sremska Mitrovica and Sid, northwestern Serbia, is good, but the danger of floods is not over yet, head of the Vojvodina crisis headquarters Goran Jesic said on Thursday.

The increasing levels of Danube river will not affect shipping, however some of the quays are at risk of being flooded, Bulgaria's Transport Minister Danail Papazov said, Tuesday.