Serbia

Iraqi Ambassador in Belgrade has called on Serbian companies to take part in the Iraq renewal.Abdul Sada, Iraqi Ambassador to Serbia, told Nebojsa Stefanovic, Serbian Parliamentary Speaker, on Friday that Serbian companies have a certain advantage over other companies when it comes to the reconstruction of Iraq.

Serbia has sent 40 firefighters to help their colleagues extinguish a fire which broke out near the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Hilandar.Scorching summer heat and high winds caused blazes on the Greek Mount Athos in northern Greece on Thursday. The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in the vicinity of …

Bosnia’s Serb leader has called for the resignation of the Foreign Minister over the country’s vote on the UN resolution on Syria.The President of Republika Srpska, the Serb-lead entity in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik, said that the country’s Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, should leave the office accusing him of breaking the …

Serbia’s ruling Progressives say that the new government’s results in fighting corruption would become visible “very soon”.Serbian Progressive Party is preparing corruption-related arrests for September, Balkan Insight has learned from the party.The tackling corruption was one of the main goals in their election programme and campaign. Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian Deputy …

New Serbian leaders have appointed the director of the Security-Information Agency and the Council for National Security secretary.Three months after the May general elections in Serbia, the ruling Progressives occupied top security positions in the country. Aleksandar Vucic, First Deputy PM and Defence Minister, was appointed secretary of the Council …

Serbian Prosecutor’s Office has announced that a relative of the war crimes defendant Ratko Mladic has entered into a plea agreement with the office.Branislav Mladic, a relative of Ratko Mladic, has pleaded guilty to a charge of hiding the former Bosnian Serb army chief while he was on the run …

A Serbian association of the families of missing has appealed to the Croatian government to speed up the process of exhumation and identification of those gone missing during Croatia’s 1995 military operations.”Croatia stands at the threshhold of the EU, a community of democratic nations and societies. Now is the time …

In a pre-emptive move, the governor of Serbia’s central bank has handed in his resignation, at the same time as the Serbian parliament was considering changes to the law that would have paved the way for his dismissal.Dejan Soskic, the chief of the Serbia’s central bank, has informed Nebojsa Stefanovic, …

NATO’s peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR, has called on Serbia’s authorities to unblock its border crossing with Kosovo at Jarinje for commercial traffic.On Thursday, the peacekeeping forces have ordered all the truck drivers to use the administrative border crossing to import goods to Kosovo, or otherwise return to Serbia. In …

The new Serbian government has prepared the ground to dismiss the chief of the central bank – the move that both the IMF and the EU strongly oppose.The Serbian parliamentarians will be considering changes to the Law on the National Bank of Serbia today. Draft amendments to the Law on …