News archive of February 2015

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will be in Stockholm Monday, where he will meet with the most senior officials of the Kingdom of Sweden and representatives of Sweden's most successful companies.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that it was impossible to predict the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case of Serbian and Croatian mutual genocide accusations, but expressed the belief that the court would prove that it indeed was a "court of justice."

Serbia "expects ICJ to truly be court of justice"

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic says it is "impossible to predict the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Serbian and Croatian mutual genocide lawsuits.

But the Serbian foreign minister said he believed that the court would prove it was it indeed "a court of justice."

The European Union could help Greece crack down on tax evaders by freezing the assets of rich Greek tax dodgers living in the 28-member bloc, Germany's economy minister told Bild daily on Tuesday.

Greece's radical new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrived in Greek Cyprus Feb. 2, making his first foreign visit to a close ally that has also been ravaged by the eurozone debt crisis.
      
Tsipras was met at the airport by Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides before heading to the capital Nicosia for talks with President Nicos Anastasiades.
      

Prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) are executing several search warrants in the case regarding the gala in which Lucian Bute boxed in Bucharest, in July 2011, said, for AGERPRES, judiciary sources.

Photo credit: (C) Sorin LUPSA / AGERPRES PHOTO

Thousands of Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest on Feb.1 seeking support from Chancellor Angela Merkel against their Prime Minister Viktor Orban a day ahead of the German leader's visit to the ex-communist nation.    

Tu?çe Albayrak, a young German student of Turkish descent who was fatally beaten while trying to protect two women from being harassed, died after her earring punctured her skull when she fell on the ground, according to a recently revealed autopsy report.

FM: No "deeper disagreements" with EU

BELGRADE -- Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that his country has no "deeper disagreements" with the European Union.

Dacic added that with Serbia "cannot communicate at the level of spokespersons, about daily political issues."

South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar on late Feb. 1 signed a new agreement to end more than 13 months of fighting in a civil war that has left tens of thousands dead.