Open Balkan

BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali announced the Open Balkan member states - Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia - had on Friday, March 1 officially established a common labour market.

Mali said electronic services for applications by workers would become available next week and that the eGovernment portals of the three countries would become interconnected.

TIRANA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Serbia would double its GDP to 140 or 150 bln euros over the next ten years.

SKOPJE - Two protocols that will enable the establishment of a free labour market in Open Balkan member states - Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania - were signed in Skopje on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be in Skopje, North Macedonia, on January 21-22 for a summit of the Open Balkan initiative and a Western Balkans-EU summit on the EU Growth Plan for the region, the presidential press office announced in a statement on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic on Friday received the president of Italy's Veneto region, Luca Zaia, to discuss continued economic cooperation, investments and the results of Serbia's cooperation with Veneto to date.

With a group of Italian companies, Zaia is a guest at this year's Wine Vision by Open Balkan international wine fair.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening it was pointless to respond to all the lies being spread against Serbia and to the removal of a Pristina tombstone of Serbian soldiers who fell during the Balkan Wars and WWI.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the 2nd Wine Vision by Open Balkan fair in Belgrade that achievements made in just a year were almost incredible and noted that the Open Balkan initiative was an affirmed peace platform.

TIRANA - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said in Tirana on Monday she did not know why Albanian PM Edi Rama had called for imposing sanctions against Serbia, and noted the move was not in line with good-neighbourly relations or the Open Balkan initiative.

TIRANA - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic attended an informal meeting of Western Balkan leaders in Tirana on Monday.

Speaking to reporters afterwards, Brnabic said initiatives as part of Open Balkan and a Berlin Process summit to be hosted by Albania had been discussed at the meeting.

After Albania declares 'mission accomplished', experts say few will mourn the apparent demise of the Open Balkan initiative.