Waterfront

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In July 2018, Azmi and dozens of his countryman started a strike on the controversial Belgrade Waterfront project, an ambitious state-backed redevelopment project in the Serbian capital conducted with investors from UAE.

The employer, from Turkey, who was a subcontractor for the Serbian company Gradina, hired for the project, did not pay them their salaries for several months.

Belgrade police and Mayor Sinisa Mali have denied all knowledge of 30 masked men armed with baseball bats and equipped with diggers who tore down buildings on the city riverbank between Sunday night and Monday and allegedly beat up locals.

After the Serbian government published the contract for the Belgrade Waterfront project on Sunday, the protest group "Let's not Drown Belgrade" said it showed Serbia was giving up its sovereignty because it had committed itself not to pass laws that conflict with the contract.

BELGRADE - Two groups of citizens gathered on Sunday outside the Belgrade Cooperative building - where the Belgrade Waterfront project contract had been signed earlier in the day - with one group protesting against the signing of the contract and the other backing it.

BELGRADE - Opposition MPs criticized on Tuesday the lex specialis on Belgrade Waterfront, qualifying it as unconstitutional and pandering to private interests.

Balsa Bozovic of the Democratic Party said that in an effort to present someone's private interest as public, the government is shifting the responsibility onto the parliament.

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali will attend the international real estate fair in Cannes, France, which will feature a presentation of the Belgrade Waterfront project, the Belgrade city administration said in a statement on Tuesday.

The mayor will begin a two-day visit to France on Wednesday and attend the 26th Cannes real estate fair.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will schedule a meeting for March 18 to discuss a bill on establishing public interest and special procedures for expropriation and construction permits needed to realise the Belgrade Waterfront project, Tanjug has learned from Gojkovic's office.