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KOPAONIK - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said at the Kopaonik Business Forum on Tuesday Serbia's lithium reserves were the third-largest in Europe and that the country could supply as much as 20 pct of a market comprised of the EU, the UK and Norway, helping to produce around a million electric vehicles a year.

KOPAONIK - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said at the Kopaonik Business Forum (KBF) on Monday evening Serbia had succeeded in maintaining economic growth despite multiple crises and extremely difficult global circumstances.

KOPAONIK - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said at the Kopaonik Business Forum (KBF) on Monday evening Serbia had succeeded in maintaining economic growth despite multiple crises and extremely difficult global circumstances.

KOPAONIK - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Monday Serbia's goal was to achieve 3.5 pct GDP growth this year and return to a high-growth zone of 6 to 7 pct by 2027.

Speaking at the Kopaonik Business Forum, Mali noted that Serbia had had 6 pct GDP growth in 2019, just before the outbreak of the coronavirus.

At the biennial meeting of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Saturday, Ana Petruseva, director of BIRN Macedonia, said the situation facing the media in the Balkans "seems to be going from bad to worse".

KOPAONIK - The undivided opinion at the 24th Kopaonik Business Forum, which closed on Thursday, was that Serbia must continue its structural reforms.

KOPAONIK - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Wednesday he had disagreed with Kosovo President Hasim Taci over an initiative to establish a Kosovo army, and noted he was expecting assistance from the EU, the US and Russia on the matter.

Vucic and Taci spoke on the phone late Tuesday.

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KOPAONIK - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Wednesday he expected Serbia to move 10 to 15 positions up in the World Bank's Doing Business list in 2017.

This is a result of reforms that began after 2014, the year when the country was hit by the worst-ever floods, he said at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

Vucic: Regional stability required for more investments

KOPAONIK - Serbia's chief EU negotiator Tanja Miscevic has announced the negotiating position for Chapter 7 in the country's EU accession talks, which deals with intellectual property, would be established at the next government session on Thursday.

KOPAONIK - Serbia has made very good progress in fiscal consolidation, but the issue of state-owned and strategic enterprises needs to be solved to catapult Serbia to even faster economic growth, Ellen Goldstein, World Bank country director for the Western Balkans, said Tuesday.