Serbia and Montenegro

Türkiye's national football team is gearing up for a friendly match against Hungary set to take place at the Puskas Arena in Budapest today.

International cooperation triggered by a spate of gangland murders in Greece has helped to dismantle a crime ring accused of more than 60 killings across Europe over the past decade, police said on Friday.

BELGRADE - National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic announced on Monday direct payment transactions between Serbia and Montenegro had been enabled for citizens as well as businesses.

According to Professor Stefan Surli, citizens don't believe their countries will ever become EU members because they think there are hidden conditions that cannot be fulfilled. For Serbia, that condition is the normalization of relations with Pristina, and the dialogue is, as he says, clinically dead at the moment.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament elected Slavica Djukic Dejanovic as new minister of education on Tuesday.

One hundred and forty-nine MPs voted in favour, 40 voted against and five abstained.

Djukic Dejanovic took the oath of office after the vote.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic put forward Slavica Djukic Dejanovic as new education minister on Wednesday.

Djukic Dejanovic is a doctor of medicine who has specialised in neuropsychiatry.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday Serbia would provide a well-grounded response to what his Montenegrin counterpart Jakov Milatovic had told him about the issue of an extradition of former Serbia and Montenegro president Svetozar Marovic from Serbia to Montenegro.

BELGRADE - Montenegro is a friend to Serbia and Serbia is a friend to Montenegro, Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic said in Belgrade on Monday, noting that his visit to the Serbian capital turned a new page in Serbia-Montenegro relations.

Dejan, then 20, had been nearing the end of his military service in Kosovo, then a southern province of Serbia, when NATO launched air strikes to halt a brutal Serbian counter-insurgency war. At the time, Serbia and Montenegro were all that was left of Yugoslavia, still joined together after the other four republics - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia - had seceded.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the cornerstone ceremony for the Belgrade-Sarajevo highway in Sremska Raca, Serbia, 8 October 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC

They sent messages over the weekend via social media, and paid visits and joined meetings and political rallies in Turkey itself.