Serbia

PM: "Criminal failures" will be investigated

PRIBOJ -- PM Aleksandar Vučić says the prosecution would initiate proceedings in cases where there were criminal offenses related to failures in the flood defense effort.

BELGRADE - Slovenian President Borut Pahor stated on Friday that the results of the elections for the European Parliament might slow down the EU enlargement process, adding that Serbia will have Slovenia's full support in the accession talks with Brussels.

BELGRADE - Avoilet, a new charter airline from Serbia, which is owned by Air Serbia, has been opened at the Nikola Tesla airport in Belgrade.

The flights will cover Egypt, Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey during this year's summer season, Air Serbia said on Friday.

Aviolet will use Boeing B737-300, which have a spacious economy class with 144 seats.

BELGRADE, May 30 (Tanjug) - USD 1 billion will be invested in the expansion and modernization of Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reports in its Friday edition.

BELGRADE - The two-day international conference on the First World War opened in Belgrade on Friday with a message by President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) Vuk Jeremic that the tensions and crises in regions far and wide are not so unlike those of the early 20th-century multipolar world.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) estimated the damages from the devastating floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina at around EUR 3B. 

Official estimates of the cost are not available yet, but in its report the EBRD put the damage at around EUR 1.5-2 B in Serbia and about EUR 1.3B in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

LONDON - The devastating floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have already damaged their economies and will hit growth and inflation in the future as well, believes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), adding that some very rough preliminary estimates put the damage in Serbia at around EUR 1.5-2 billion.

BELGRADE - British Charge d'Affaires in Belgrade David McFarlane has handed over 67 radio stations donated to on-the-ground teams of the Emergency situations sector at the Serbian Interior Ministry.

Prime Minister reveals plotting against him from abroad Vucic: Foreign countries attempted to oust me

The Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said that some foreign countries would like to have him dismissed from his present post.

Iron Maiden in Belgrade on stage seventeen meters high

The Iron Maiden is coming to Belgrade again on its Boeing 757 piloted by the band’s singer Bruce Dickson. Huge equipment packed in a dozen of trailer trucks is expected to arrive before them for the gig at the Kalemegdan on June 17.