Serbia

NOVI SAD - Vojvodina Prime Minister Bojan Pajtic has said that he is not considering stepping down from the position.

Pajtic, who is also the Democratic Party (DS) leader, told the Radio Television of Vojvodina on Tuesday that the Vojvodina government has not collapsed and that it is functioning with more capacity and more efficiently than the national government.

NOVI SAD- Vojvodina Ašembly Speaker Istvan Pastor stated that the Tuesday meeting of a part of political parties in the Vojvodina parliament was sučešful although it was not attended by the two central parties in the provincial government coalition, the Democratic Party (DS) and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV).

BELGRADE - The injured German citizen D.H. (27) is feeling better and we are discussing his further treatment in Germany with his insurance company and doctors in his country, Deputy Director of Belgrade's Emergency Center Dusan Jovanovic told Tanjug.

Provincial govt. "has essentially collapsed"

NOVI SAD -- President of the Vojvodina Assembly Istvan Pasztor on Tuesday held a meeting with representatives of some parties that have deputies in the provincial assembly....

No agreement on minimum price of labor

BELGRADE -- The Social Economic Council has not come to an agreement on the minimum price of labor for next year, Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Sunday.

"It means that the government will decide on it at one of its upcoming meetings," he told reporters after a meeting of the council....

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said at a Serbian government meeting Sunday that it was necessary to make savings of EUR 700 million to ensure financial consolidation in the year to come.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic condemned in the strongest terms an attack on the German citizen D.H. (27) that occurred in downtown Belgrade in the night between Friday and Saturday and left the man with serious injuries, and ordered an intensive investigation, the Interior Ministry said in a release on Saturday.

BELGRADE - A foreign citizens suffered serious bodily injuries after being attacked by an unknown person in downtown Belgrade at around 3 a.m. Saturday, the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) said in a release.

The Belgrade police is on the ground, working hard to determine the facts about the attack to find those responsible as soon as possible, the release said.

Serbian Railways receives Russian machines

RUMA -- State-owned company Serbian Railways (Železnice Srbije) has received 31 construction machines from Russia.

This completed the delivery of 103 machines in total, which are meant to speed up the repairs and construction of railroads in the country as part of a Russian of a USD 800 million loan.

BELGRADE - The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and the Association of Journalists of Kosovo-Metohija (DNKiM) condemned on Friday the latest vandalism of the memorial to the missing journalists in KiM, and urged the international and Kosovo institutions to launch an investigation immediately.