News archive of September 2014

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar dropped 0.1 percent against the euro on Tuesday, setting the official middle exchange rate at RSD 117.9514 for one euro, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) said in a release.

Marko Milicev, 33, from Belgrade, has been arrested in China after fleeing the country following a killing of 21-year-old Luka Jovanovic, who was hit by a car on July 25 on Branko's Bridge in Belgrade.

Nebojsa Stefanovic, the interior minister, said Milicev was arrested on a warrant that Serbia issued after his Chinese visa expired.

SUBOTICA - The list of the Alliance of Backi Bunjevci (SBB), headed by Mirko Bajic, is the first electoral list to be announced for the upcoming republic level elections for national minority councils taking place in Serbia on October 26, the SBB has said in a release.

BELGRADE - Serbia could make a EUR 100 million profit from the digital dividend after it switches to digital television broadcasting mid next year, State Secretary at the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Tatjana Matic said Tuesday.

The trial over the April 2013 murder of a 30-year-old man running a family-owned pawn shop in the suburb of Dafni began on Monday with the four defendants admitting to their role in the death of Giorgos Kotsilidis and apologizing to his family.

The judiciary is not a castle to conquer and it needs to be left in peace, a top judge has said, also warning that charging people without information or documents would amount to “blacklisting.”

Romanian leader Victor Ponta has started a visit to China aimed at wooing investers in agriculture, energy and road infrastructure projects.

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The Struma and Hemus motorways are the main priorities under Operational Program "Transport", according to Bulgaria's caretaker Transport Minister Nikolina Angelkova.

In a Tuesday interview for Nova TV, she informed that all projects included in the program had to be completed and launched by 2022.

French Ambassador Roland Gilles ended his four-year tenure in Bosnia by leaving Sarajevo on his bike on September 1, aiming to send a political message through sport.

Instead of going by car or plane, the ambassador's unusual choice of a two-wheeled vehicle also provided a platform for local cyclists to advocate for better cycling infrastructure.

Russian energy concern Gazprom has accused the European Commission that it is putting a wheel on South Stream for political reasons.