News archive of December 2016

BELGRADE - The Serbian government is open to all those wishing to participate in reforms, PM Aleksandar Vucic said at the presentation of the Foreign Investors Council 2016 White Book Monday.

Serbia has sustainable growth and the economy is on a stable footing, Vucic said, adding that he always took into account the professional and expert views of the business community.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will be on an official visit to the Czech Republic on November 29-30.

Nikolic will meet Czech President Milos Zeman, as well as with numerous businesspeople, the government press office said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Between two editions of the White Book, the Serbian government managed to conduct fiscal consolidation and ensure good economic parameters as a foundation for high expectations for the future, Foreign Investors Council President Yana Mikhailova said Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Monday his recent visit to Abu Dhabi had included meetings with advisers to US president-elect Donald Trump, and added that he was expecting to soon establish contact with Trump's office and with Trump himself.

Vucic was responding to media speculations that he had travelled to Abu Dhabi to attend a Formula 1 race.

BELGRADE - It is for Serbia to determine its policy towards NATO, and the partnership approach is the right one, the Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Michael Davenport, said Monday.

Serbia has made the strategic choice about heading towards the EU, as reaffirmed multiple times, but we have also seen an evolution of Serbia's approach towards partnership with NATO, said Davenport.

BELGRADE - The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Serbian government on Monday signed a financial contract on the upgrading of judiciary buildings.

It was signed by Serbian Minister of Finance Dusan Vujovic and EIB VP Dario Scannapieco, after Scannapieco's meeting with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic, the EIB said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Monday spoke with European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice-President Dario Scannapieco, who praised the very good results of the Serbian government's economic policy, expressing readiness on behalf of the EIB to fully support the further reform process in Serbia.

BELGRADE - The director of the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies Jelena Milic said Monday she expected the Belgrade NATO Week conference to send a message of consensus about the recent past to make possible the planning of the future in mutual interest.

The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group is helping Turkey find two of its soldiers that went missing in Syria, a British general said on Nov. 30.

A group of 15 firemen were fighting a blaze caused by an explosion at an Everest fast-food outlet located on Victoria Square in central Athens on Thursday. According to initial reports the blast occurred at around 9.25 a.m.