Johannes Hahn

BRUSSELS - The EU on Wednesday granted 27.4 mln euros to Serbia to support the reform of the country's education system.

"Serbian children deserve the same opportunities like children in the EU," EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said after the signing of a grant agreement in Brussels.

An agreement was signed in Brussels on Wednesday on the support of the European Union to the education system of Serbia worth 27.4 million euros.

The agreement was signed in the presence of Serbian Minister of EU Integration Jadranka Joksimovic and EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn.

BRUSSELS - Kosovo Deputy PM Bedzet Pacoli will be visiting Brussels at the end of the week to speak with EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn and foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini.

Tanjug's sources in the European Commission say the meetings would mostly focus on the EU's relations with Kosovo, visa liberalisation and the dialogue with Belgrade.

The European Commission and Serbia have signed an agreement to provide the EU candidate country with 27.4 million euros in assistance for its education system.

Speaking at the signing ceremony in Brussels on September 27, the EU's enlargement commissioner, Johannes Hahn, said that the money will help the Serbian education system to adapt to labor market needs.

Minister for European Integration and National IPA Coordinator Jadranka Joksimovic is visiting Brussels on Tuesday and Friday, the government has announced.

NEW YORK - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic has attended a working breakfast of Western Balkan FMs and EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn in New York, organised by the Regional Cooperation Council.

The topics discussed included a proposal for the Transport Community to be headquartered in Serbia.

BRUSSELS - The EU is stepping up its support to all partners towards irreversible progress on the European integration path by the end of our mandate, EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini and Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said after a meeting with Western Balkan leaders on the fringes of the UN General Assembly session in New York.

With an additional €90 millionsupport from the EU Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian Crisis, the EU is enabling UNICEF to provide critical services and support to Syrian refugee and host community children and young people in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

BELGRADE - Serbia is "not so easily discouraged," PM Ana Brnabic told a press conference with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn Friday.

Brnabic was responding to a question whether an announced EU strategy - which sees Serbia join the EU by 2025 - was discouraging in light of prior announcements that this might happen by 2020.

BELGRADE - The structure of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will not change as any changes would only make the process more complicated, EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn told a press conference after meeting with Serbian PM Ana Brnabic in Belgrade Friday.