Latest News from Serbia
Vucic meets with Munsch
BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the commander of the NATO Joint Force Command in Naples, Adm Stuart Munsch, in Belgrade on Tuesday, noting that Serbia's policy of military neutrality remained firm but that the country was open to further cooperation.
Djuric: Good news from Brussels, we are prepared for progress on EU path
BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Tuesday the announcement that the EU Council of Ministers had approved a letter inviting Serbia to submit its negotiation positions for Chapters 16 and 19 under Cluster 3 of its EU accession talks was good news and that Serbia was prepared for further progress on the European path.
Hadrian’s Aqueduct: A 1,863-year-old Roman solution to Athens’ water scarcity problem
The amount of 1,000,000 cubic meters per year is estimated to be the water saved for Athenians if Hadrian’s Aqueduct is utilized along its entire length.
Hill: I cannot confirm US will impose sanctions on NIS
BELGRADE - US Ambassador to Belgrade Christopher Hill said on Monday he was unable to confirm whether the US would impose sanctions on Serbia's majority-Russian owned oil company NIS, and noted that, if imposed, the sanctions should not harm the Serbian economy in any way.
EU adopts 15th package of sanctions against Russia – Targets 52 ships from the shadow fleet
The EU has adopted the 15th package of sanctions against Russia, which includes measures against the so-called third-country shadow fleet that allows Russia to export oil and gas by circumventing Western sanctions.
BIA: Allegations in Amnesty International report absurd
BELGRADE - Serbia's Security Information Agency (BIA) on Monday dismissed as absurd allegations in an Amnesty International report that Serbian authorities were using software to unlawfully spy on activists and journalists.
Djuric: Opening Cluster 3 with Serbia to be backed from southern Europe all the way to Baltic
BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said Serbia had made major progress in the past several months when it comes to obtaining support from EU member states to accelerate its progress to the EU, and noted that this would be evident at Monday's meeting of EU ambassadors, who will discuss Serbia's request to open Cluster 3.
Mali: Sanctions on NIS would be extremely bad but there is light at end of tunnel
BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Monday potential US sanctions on Serbia's majority Russian-owned oil company NIS from January 1 would be extremely bad for Serbia but noted that the arrival of a new US administration might be a light at the end of the tunnel.
EU ambassadors to again discuss opening Cluster 3 in accession talks with Serbia
BRUSSELS - Ambassadors of EU member states will on Monday continue a debate on Serbia's request to open Cluster 3 in its EU accession talks and on General Affairs Council draft conclusions on enlargement, sources in Brussels have told Tanjug.
Serbia needs unity, Vucic says after meeting with BIA officials
BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday he had met with Security Information Agency (BIA) officials to discuss an announcement the US and some other countries would impose sanctions on Serbia's majority Russian-owned oil company NIS.
USA: A former ambassador to Germany, Trump’s choice for “special missions” around the world
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced yesterday, Saturday, his intention to assign another of his loyalists, Richard Grenell, to the nascent post of presidential envoy for “special missions.”
“Rick will work in some of the hottest spots in the world, including Venezuela and North Korea,” Mr. Trump said via Truth Social.
FM: German MFA's interference in our internal affairs risks undermining relations
BELGRADE - In a reaction to the German MFA's post on X about student protests in Serbia, FM Marko Djuric emphasised the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, noting that such statements risked undermining the constructive relationship Serbia strived to maintain with its partners.
New unit of Kostolac coal-fired power plant turned over to EPS
KOSTOLAC - A new unit of Serbia's Kostolac coal-fired power plant was officially turned over by the China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) to Serbia's national power company EPS on Friday.
EPS Director General Dusan Zivkovic received a certificate of turnover from CMEC President Fang Yanshui and the two also signed a contract on management of the unit.
Vucevic receives Interpol's Al-Raisi
BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic received Interpol President Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi on Friday to discuss Serbia's cooperation with Interpol and opening a regional Interpol bureau in Belgrade.
Selakovic: Serbia has purchased valuable archival material about Mileva Maric Einstein
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture Nikola Selakovic said on Friday correspondence between Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva Maric Einstein (1875-1948), recently purchased by the Ministry of Culture at a London auction, represented valuable archival material and would be used to set up a personal archival fund of Maric Einstein, a renowned Serbian mathematician and physicist.