Serbian media

BELGRADE - In a cordial and friendly conversation in Belgrade on Thursday, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic thanked outgoing Canadian Ambassador to Serbia Roman Waschuk for his efforts to take relations between Canada and Serbia to a higher level.

Finance minister: Taxation must expand

BELGRADE -- Serbia's Minister of Finance Dušan Vujović said on Tuesday taxation would have to expand in order to save more money.

BELGRADE - Serbia should reduce its budget deficit from EUR 2.5 billion to EUR 1 billion by 2017, Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said and announced that the 2014 budget review with key savings measures would be presented on Thursday.

German participant in LGBT conference injured

BELGRADE -- Despite still being in a serious condition, the injured German citizen has been feeling better since Sunday morning, Dušan Jovanović has said.

The deputy director of at the Emergency Center of the Clinical Center of Serbia spoke for Tanjug on Sunday.

BELGRADE - A German citizen, D.H. (27), who suffered serious injuries after being attacked in downtown Belgrade in the night between Friday and Saturday, woke up following a surgery at the Emergency Center of the Clinical Center of Serbia.

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.

BELGRADE - The Undertaker, a film by director and screenwriter Dragan Nikolic, has been nominated as the best European television documentary after featuring at thirty festivals to great acclaim, the producers announced.

BELGRADE - Economy Minister Zeljko Sertic talked with representatives of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and the Green Serbia Chamber of Commerce about ways to raise awareness of environmental issues and develop the green industry.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will take part in a two-day conference of speakers of parliaments of the Council of Europe member states and neighbouring and observer countries that will begin in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Italy, holder of the EU presidency, is ready to engage to make it possible for Serbia to open the negotiation chapters by the end of the year, which, however, mostly depends on Serbia itself, Italian Ambassador to Serbia Guiseppe Manzo told Tanjug on Tuesday.