Novi Sad

NOVI SAD - Outgoing Serbian prime minister and leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Ivica Dacic stated in Novi Sad on Tuesday that the final plan of positions in the future government has not been drawn up yet and he could not reply to the question as to what office he may hold in the future.

NOVI SAD -Ljubisav Orbovic, president of the Association of Independent Trade Unions of Serbia, has said that major budget savings, amounting to EUR 60 million, could be made if members of managing and monitoring boards were denied earning.

The government of the Serbian province of Vojvodina and its capital Novi Sad are soon to be transformed into an "executive council" and a "seat of the provincial authority", if a new draft statute for the province is adopted.

"The northern province of Vojvodina will no longer be in charge of establishing basic policy at the level of the autonomous province of Vojvodina," it reads.

BUDVA - The National Tourism Organisation of Serbia (TOS) will give a comprehensive presentation of Serbia's tourism potential at the METUBES International Tourism Exchange, Tourism Fair, Equipment for Hotels and Catering in Budva on April 3-5.

BELGRADE - Novi Sad is still on the top of the list of Serbia's tourist destinations according to the number of overnight stays and domestic and foreign tourists, as the number of tourists from the beginning of 2014 to the end of February went up by 26.2 percent compared to the respective period in 2013, the Novi Sad Tourist Organization released in a statement on Tuesday.

NOVI SAD - Serbia's Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovicic said on Friday that it is necessary to engage in the changes and modernization of the sports system in Serbia.

We have set out to modernize all segments of the society, so it is necessary to modernize the sports system as well, Udovicic said in a public debate on privatization in sports, held in Novi Sad.

"Nicefoods Restaurants" says it will appeal against a judgment of the Novi Sad Court, which fined it 100,000 dinars (about 860 euro) for not allowing Roma children to enter McDonald's in the city of Novi Sad in 2012.

"Nicefoods Restaurants respect the ruling... but we will use our right and appeal the decision," the company said in a statement.

NOVI SAD - The campaign for the recent early election in Serbia has shown that the country's accession into the EU is a general goal that unifies the ruling and most of the opposition parties, Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport has said.

BELGRADE - Oldtimer cars are more interesting and attract more attention than modern ones, say the owners of classic cars taking part in the Prince Tomislav Karadjordjevic Parade at the Belgrade Fair on Saturday.

NOVI SAD - The initiative to nominate the second-largest city in Serbia Novi Sad as the European Capital of Culture in 2020 has been presented on Monday at the 20th international Book Fair in Novi Sad.