Liberal democracies

BELGRADE - The Serbian-German Association stated on Wednesday on the occasion of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Germany that this organization will work towards fostering and developing the friendship between the Serbian and German peoples.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic has commented on Bulgaria's decision to suspend work on the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline at the request of the European Commission by saying that Serbia will have to postpone the start of the pipeline's construction.

Bulgaria lost its fourth consecutive game at the volleyball World League after 2:3 (18:25, 21:25, 25:20, 25:22, 11:15) against Serbia in Sofia.

It was looking dismal for Bulgaria at the start, just as it was in the first match between the two sides on Saturday. After losing the first two sets however, Camillo Placi's men recovered and equalized the score.

Bulgaria will play against Serbia on Saturday night in its third match of the 2014 Volleyball World League.

The 2 consecutive games against Serbia at Sofia's Arena Armeets could revive Bulgaria's hopes for passing the group stage, following two losses to the United States.

Seventy years ago, 156,000 Allied soldiers began their battle for a beachhead on the coast of Normandy, setting off a sequence of events which, along with the advance of Soviet forces in the east, would result in the defeat of German forces which occupied Europe from France to Greece. June 6, 1944, is one of the most important days in the history of our blood-soaked continent.

BELGRADE - National Theater in Belgrade has been included in the Adriatic Route, part of the European Route of Historic Theaters, the Serbian national theater announced on Thursday.

An annulment decision by the Council of State has revealed that a large urbanization decision about a central Istanbul neighborhood of 5,560 houses was made upon the inspection of only 14 buildings and almost no scientific examination.

Romania has a huge unexploited potential, while the country's image should be improved from within, and the excessive bureaucratic system needs systematization to provide efficient administration, Swiss Ambassador in Bucharest Jean-Hubert Lebet told AGERPRES in an interview.

VIENNA - Serbia is one of Austria's major economic partners, Gunter Sucher, Regional Director for Southeastern Europe at the Economic Chamber of Austria, has said ahead of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Vienna on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Forty teams comprising 200 local and international experts will be established in Serbia to evaluate the damage caused by the floods, representatives of relevant institutions and the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure agreed at a meeting on Tuesday.