Tanjug

BRUSSELS - Serbia is about to tackle adjustments of regulations in the service sector with European standards, Serbia's chief negotiator in the accession talks with the EU Tanja Miscevic said during another round of screening in Brussels.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) has staged a pre-election rally in Belgrade where the party's leader Aleksandar Vucic said that the Ukrainian scenario will never happen in Serbia, telling those who wish it to occur that before them is a rampart they will never be able to jump over.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic will meet a delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday, the government office for relations with the media has stated.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Mrkic stated on Monday that the statement by Gerhard Schroeder, former chancellor of Germany, that the 1999 air campaign against Serbia constituted a violation of the international law came too late, reiterating that Serbia advocates the adherence to the international law in all circumstances.

BELGRADE - Sixteen people were injured in a traffic accident on Monday, including two severely injured who were admitted to the ER in a serious condition, said Dr Goran Petrovic of the Clinical Center of Serbia.

The accident occurred when a truck and two streetcars collided in New Belgrade on Monday afternoon, Tanjug learnt at the Ministry of the Interior.

BELGRADE - German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm has said that Mercedes-Benz’ cooperation with Serbian companies is a good signal to other large German companies to invest in Serbia.

BELGRADE – Serbia’s Energy Minister Zorana Mihajlovic and representatives of 20 local governments in the country signed a memorandum on cooperation in the construction of small hydroelectric power plants (SHPP) with a total capacity of 60 MW.

BELGRADE - The first bus carrying the Mercedes-Benz sign to be produced in Serbia will roll off the assembly line at Belgrade-based Ikarbus factory by March 13, and mass production of that bus will be a huge export opportunity for Serbia, Ikarbus General Director Aleksandar Vicentic has told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - In the context of reforms and European integration process, improving the position of women in Serbia is closely connected with the necessity to use all development potential of society, women involved in Serbia’s European integration process told Tanjug on the occasion of the 2014 International Women's Day.

BELGRADE - President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Sonja Liht said on the occasion of the 2014 International Women’s Day that women in Serbian need to excercise their voting rights in the upcoming elections, because it is the first step towards winning all other rights.