Serbian media

Tanjug, the news agency founded by the Yugoslav Communists in the 1940s, is still operating despite being closed by the government last month when it failed to find a private buyer.

Nebojsa Stefanovic says he has been "pointing out to the prime minister" there are "individuals in the cabinet and in the SNS inclined toward the opponents."

Stefanovic is a high-ranking official of the ruling Progressives (SNS), whose leader is Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, and also serves as interior minister in the government.

During the night and morning on Wednesday more than 2,000 people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries arrived in Presevo, southern Serbia.

The Red Cross is providing assistance to them, with local official Ahmet Halimi telling Tanjug there has been "a dramatic increase in influx of migrants" since last night.

LJUBLJANA - Germany is very significant for the continuation of Serbia's European integration and ways of opening the chapters in the EU-Serbia accession talks as quickly as possible must be discussed together, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Thursday.

The Serbian foreign minister is attending a meeting of the foreign ministers of Brdo Process member states in Slovenia.

BELGRADE - Serbia has achieved a high level of alignment with EU regulations in the consumer protection sector in Serbia, Serbian State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications and head of the Negotiating Group 28 Vesna Kovac said on Thursday.

PIROT - Pirot-based poet Andrija Stanulovic received a recognition for excellence in poetry in a competition for young poets in Trieste.

WASHINGTON - The World Bank (WB) Board of Directors granted Serbia on Wednesday a loan worth EUR 88.3 million (around USD 100 million) as support to structural reforms, WB released on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Spanish embassy and Cervantes Institute in Belgrade have organised a reception to mark the arrival of spring, which was attended by many guests from the cultural and art scene.

BELGRADE - The government of the Republic of Serbia adopted at its Thursday session the decree on distribution of incentives to agriculture and rural development in 2015.

ATHENS - The issue of the possibility for development of additional cooperation between Greece and Serbia was only one of the topics discussed in Athens by Deputy Minister for Tourism Elena Koundoura and State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry of Trade, Telecommunications and Tourism Lukrecija Djeri.