Western Balkan

SARAJEVO - It is good the Western Balkan PMs will adopt another declaration at the Sarajevo summit, but I am afraid the quarrels and conflicts will restart afterwards, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said at the event Thursday, asking the hosts not to refer to all participants as states as he was not doing that either.

SARAJEVO - Bakir Izetbegovic and Dragan Covic, the Bosniak and Croat members of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, said Wednesday Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic was welcome in Sarajevo for next week's meeting of Western Balkan prime ministers.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will visit Sarajevo on March 16 to attend a meeting of Western Balkan heads of government.

Tanjug is reporting that Vucic's office confirmed this for the Sarajevo-based website klix.ba.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday met with the Third President of the National Council of Austria, Norbert Hofer.

Nikolic stressed that Serbian-Austrian bilateral cooperation is very good and that it is important to additionally strengthen economic relations, the presidential press office said in a statement.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday met with the Third President of the National Council of Austria, Norbert Hofer.

Nikolic stressed that Serbian-Austrian bilateral cooperation is very good and that it is important to additionally strengthen economic relations, the presidential press office said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbia has climbed from the 54th to the 47th position in the just-released World Bank Doing Business list.

Serbia also ranked among this year's 10 most-improved of the total 189 countries.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has called on eastern European member states of the EU opposing the bloc's quotas for relocation of refugees to share the burden with their richer partners in western Europe.

Austria has re-introduced checks on its border with Hungary to curb the flow of irregular migrants, AP reported on Monday.

Austrian police have said that the number of attempts to smuggle illegal migrants into the country has increased since the Western Balkan migration route was closed to migrants earlier this year.

Bulgaria plans to build a video surveillance system at its border with Serbia to prevent a possible increase in outbound crossing by irregular migrants, bTV broadcaster reported on Tuesday.

Greece has increased efforts to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with one person in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A.