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KOPAONIK - Serbia is setting up a domestic power exchange named Sepex, in which the French partner, Epex Spot, will have 25 percent of the stake, and the Serbian national grid operator Elektromreza Srbije - 75 percent, Nikola Petrovic, the director of the public company, announced on Wednesday.

KOPAONIK - The World Bank (WB) will start negotiations with the new Serbian government on a USD 250 million loan towards budgetary support as soon as reform laws are adopted and a restructuring of 153 state and socially-owned companies is initiated, Tony Verheijen, the World Bank Country Manager for Serbia, told Tanjug on Tuesday.

KOPAONIK - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that he wishes Ukraine and its people to recover from the crisis, and that Serbia will be constructive and provide assistance if necessary.

KOPAONIK - In the coming period, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) will continue to pursue a cautious monetary policy oriented towards ensuring favourable conditions for further economic development and sustainable economic growth, NBS Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic said on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - This year's Kopaonik Business Forum, the 21 in a row, under the title 'Changing Serbia in a Changing Europe' will begin on Tuesday and will last until March 6.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications Ministar Rasim Ljajic and Montenegrin Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism Branimir Gvozdenovic agreed Friday that there is a great potential in two countries’ businessmen to accessing third markets together.

EU takes BiH to task for Sejdic-Finci failure

Some politicians said the October elections are the key to implementing the verdict.

The BiH presidency building stands in Sarajevo. The top government posts are earmarked for the country's three majority ethnicities, which is discriminatory, according to a 2009 European Court of Human Rights ruling. [AFP]

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Justice and Public Administration Nikola Selakovic conferred on Thursday with the Norwegian Ambassador in Belgrade Nils Ragnar Kamsvag on a new agreement between Serbia and Norway regulating the mutual transfer of sentenced persons.

BELGRADE - The police arrested three foreigners in Kraljevo, central Serbia, within the action aimed at provision of international legal assistance to Great Britain authorities, Serbian Prosecutor for Organised Crime Miljko Radisavljevic said.

The action was conducted in several countries against an international organised criminal ring involved in frauds, Radisavljevic told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that Serbia will implement urgent, necessary and comprehensive reforms and further improve its business climate.