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BELGRADE- Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday good times were ahead for cooperation between Serbia and Italy.

After the signing of several agreements with Italy, Vucic said he was happy to have attended the largest business and scientific forum in a decade, which he noted was unique in that it had been held with only one country.

BELGRADE - The March 2004 pogrom against Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija began on this day 19 years ago, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic wrote in a post on her Instagram profile on Friday.

Brnabic noted that "over 4,000 Serbs were driven out of their homes and eight were killed, and 35 churches and monasteries, including many under UNESCO protection, were destroyed."

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, starts the establishment of the State Peoples Movement and will visit all parts of the country in the coming period.
Vucic said the new movement would be established as a "state-building and national movement for the survival and progress of Serbia."

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with members of the EBRD Board of Directors on Wednesday to discuss Serbia's economic growth, energy and digitalisation as key factors of economic growth.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Arnaud Guyon announced on Tuesday that more Serbian-language supplementary schools would be opened in the US and Austria.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic met with the president of the German Bundestag's Group for Southeast Europe Josip Juratovic and Group members Boris Mijatovic and Thomas Hacker in Belgrade on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday awarded Statehood Day honours at a ceremony also attended by PM Ana Brnabic, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik and Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Legendary former Serbian footballer and coach Sinisa Mihajlovic and composer Kornelije Kovac were posthumously awarded the Order of Karadjordje's Star.

Tony and Cherie

As former British Prime Ministers and their spouses go, the Blairs are a relatively well-known couple in the Balkans. As Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair was among the most vocal - and hawkish - faces of NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia over Kosovo and remained engaged with the region thereafter.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with international High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt on Wednesday to discuss the significance of joint regional projects for the region's progress and finding ways to accelerate their implementation.

Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia got their worst corruption scores in ten years in the latest Global Perceptions Corruption Index, CPI, which the watchdog organisation Transparency International published on Tuesday.