Vienna

VIENNA - Serbia is very interesting for Austrian companies, Vice President of the Austrian Economic Chambers Richard Schenz said before the start of the business forum Serbia in Vienna 2015 on Tuesday.

He told Tanjug he was glad Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was taking part in the forum together with a large business delegation.

VIENNA - Serbs are real Europeans and it is good that Serbia will strengthen the EU by joining it, Vice President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber Richard Schenz has said.

VIENNA - Serbian Minister of Interior Affairs Nebojsa Stefanovic noted that the number of citizens joining radical groups is dropping in Serbia after the country recently adopted the law to ban fighting in other countries.

One of Gustav Klimt's most famous paintings will not be returned to the heirs of its Jewish former owner in a case that has tested Austria's laws on restitution of looted art.
   

VIENNA- The Vienna-based Wiener Stadtische insurance group organized an exhibition on Serbian architecture 'City as a regional context for architecture' in the capital of Austria.

The retrospective includes the forerunners of modern architecture in the period of 1920-1930 and the building momentum of 1945 to 1980, when modernism was accepted as the official "state" style.

Istanbul's Topkap? Palace Museum is hosting a new exhibition, featuring the 500-year history of Turkish coffee. Organized in collaboration with the Turkish Coffee Culture and Research Association, the exhibition, titled "A Drop of Pleasure: 500 years of Turkish Coffee" opened on Feb. 17 at the museum's Has Ah?rlar section with the attendance of Culture and Tourism Minister Ömer Çelik.

VIENNA - Cooperation between cities in the Danube Region offers a possibility for better development to Belgrade, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Andreja Mladenovic said in Vienna on Monday during the gathering entitled 'Urban Platform Danube Region'.

Smuggler attempts to leave country with 100 artifacts

BELGRADE -- Serbian customs and police officers have discovered about 100 archaeological objects in a van searched at the Horgos border crossing in the north.

VIENNA - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic, who is visiting Austria with the Serbian delegation, conferred with Austrian Federal Minister of Justice in Vienna Wolfgang Brandstetter in Vienna on Friday.

VIENNA - By a decree of Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Gordana Popovic, a Negotin, Serbian-born scientist, has received a senior order of the Republic of Austria.

She became the first Serbian woman to be awarded the Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, established in 1887.