Brnabic meets with Finnish parliament speaker

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic met with Finnish Parliament Speaker Jussi Halla-aho in Belgrade on Tuesday evening to discuss EU integration, as well as lithium, with Finland to become the first country in Europe to mine and process its own lithium.

"Finland is one of the world's leading countries when it comes to the level of environmental protection, so I asked that we look at how the two areas - mining and environmental protection - overlap," Brnabic said at a press conference with Halla-aho after the meeting.

Welcoming her Finnish counterpart, Brnabic noted that, this year, the two countries marked the 95th anniversary of their diplomatic relations, which she said made Halla-aho's visit to Belgrade all the more important.

"My ambition and one of my work priorities is for the current parliament to be much stronger and make a step forward...