Social Issues

At the trial of two Bosniak fighters for the torture, beatings and sexual abuse of prisoners on Mount Igman in 1993, a witness said one defendant behaved “abnormally” because of wartime stress.

Experts from Bulgaria's Investment Planning Ministry have proposed setting up a social housing fund.

The fund is to cater to the needs of families and persons with low incomes and specific needs, elderly living alone and disadvantaged citizens, according to the Ministry's press office, as cited by econ.bg.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in Sarajevo on March 12 that the focus now should be on economic reforms, welfare and the judiciary - not on constitutional change.

BELGRADE - Thursday is the last day for the political parties to try to win the trust of voters as the election silence ahead of Sunday's snap elections will begin at midnight.

The election silence will last by the close of polls at 20:00 CET on March 16.

According to the latest opinion poll by polling agency Faktor Plus, the number of sway voters stands at 20 percent.

Ahead of the March 16 general elections, experts say Serbia should monitor parties’ campaign finances more strictly - and the state auditor should help with the task.

ZUBIN POTOK - Municipal charters have been adopted in three municipalities in northern Kosovo-Metohija, while in northern Mitrovica the debate on adoption of this document is still underway.

NOVI SAD – Trade unions’ representatives are willing to loosen up a little in their current talks with social partners on amendments to Serbia’s labor law, but only to the extent they deem not damaging to the unions' members interests, Chairman of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Vojvodina (SSSV) Goran Milic said Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, representatives of the European Youth Center (EYC) and the Students' Union of Serbia signed an agreement of understanding in Belgrade on Wednesday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin stated in Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday that it is through investments that the Serbian government is taking care of its citizens in KiM.

KRAGUJEVAC - The maternity hospital of the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic in the Kragujevac Clinical Centre opened on Wednesday after it was reconstructed with the assistance of the Dragica Nikolic Foundation.