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VIENNA - Serbia is very interesting for Austrian companies, Vice President of the Austrian Economic Chambers Richard Schenz said before the start of the business forum Serbia in Vienna 2015 on Tuesday.

He told Tanjug he was glad Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was taking part in the forum together with a large business delegation.

"Serbia offers investors best conditions in region" - PM

VIENNA -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Vienna on Tuesday that, when it comes to the region, "Serbia offers best conditions to investors."

According to him, trade with the European Union amounting to EUR 17 billion "dispels all doubts concerning the country's strategic orientation."

VIENNA - Serbs are real Europeans and it is good that Serbia will strengthen the EU by joining it, Vice President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber Richard Schenz has said.

"Serbia won't sit quietly as Greater Albania is created"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic has said that the country "cannot and will not" react quietly to the creation of a Greater Albania.

He remarked that "they need not hide it under any other guise, because (Greater Albania) is obviously what this is about," and "called on the EU to oppose it."

Russia's food safety watchdog is considering a ban on fruits and vegetables imports from Serbia on suspicions that apples arriving from the country are originally from Poland.

Rosselhoznadzor, cited by Russian news agency RIA Novosti, has voiced its concerns over the sharp increase in apples imports and has demanded consultations with Belgrade over the issue.

Greece has launched a "preliminary investigation for foreign bribery and money laundering" allegedly committed by AKTOR AD? in neighbouring Macedonia, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, said in its latest Report on Implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Greece.

A new pro-Russian party called Zmiana, which means "change", emerged on the political scene in Poland.

The party, which has a strong anti-US orientation, supports Russian President Vladimir Putin's policies and sees Russia as natural ally for both Poland and the EU, EUobserver reports.

"Serbia, Albania to propose joint infrastructure projects"

BELGRADE -- Serbia and Albania will propose to EU officials joint priority projects that can be funded from the EU funds meant for the Western Balkans.

This was announced by Serbia's State Secretary for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Dejan Trifunovic on Sunday.

Russians "could lose patience and ban fruit imports"

Belgrade, Moscow -- Russia's food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor suspects that Serbia is re-exporting apples produced in Poland.

Armed forces train leaders for new global challenges

The British Embassy in Macedonia held training for 30 high-ranking officials in the security sector.

UK Major General John Moore-Bick shares advice with representatives from Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Serbia and Ukraine. [British Embassy Skopje]