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Milena Depolo wins award at festival in Sweden
BELGRADE - Young Serbian playwright and scriptwriter Milena Depolo has won the Best Women Achievement Award for her script for the film Kad ljubav zakasni, flim production company Kosutnjak film stated on Thursday.
The festival was entitled the Balkan New Film Festival and took place between February 14 and 16. It included the latest films from the Balkans.
Macedonian foreign minister in Belgrade on Friday
BELGRADE - Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki will pay a visit to Belgrade on Friday during which he will confer with Serbia's top officials.
Poposki will meet with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Ivica Dacic, outgoing prime minister, and Ivan Mrkic, outgoing minister of foreign affairs.
Serbia should follow guidelines of EU energy policy
BELGRADE - Creating a sustainable and safe energy supply system at affordable prices is among the guidelines of the EU Energy Policy by 2020, which Serbia, as an EU candidate country, should follow, participants of a conference titled "European Energy Policy- Challenges for Serbia within the EU Accession Process" noted on Thursday.
PM: Voting should also be organized in Kosovo
PM: Voting should also be organized in Kosovo
BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has said that the government insists that the Serbian parliamentary elections should also be organized in Kosovo and Metohija.
Japan's donation to architecture and art students
BELGRADE - The Embassy of Japan donated books, handbooks and other publications, mostly related to Japanese architecture, but to other fields of study as well, to the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture on Thursday.
Guitar Art Festival to kick off on March 11
BELGRADE - The 15th Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade will take place on March 11-16.
The international guitar festival was created in 2000 as a high-level musical event that gathers together classical and guitarists of other genres.
Naxos Trio will perform as the opening act for the event, and they will give the stage over to Brazilian artist Badi Assad.
Annual inflation rate in 2014 "to be around 4 percent"
Annual inflation rate in 2014 "to be around 4 percent"
BELGRADE -- On average, inflation in Serbia should stand at about four percent annually, which corresponds to the inflation target of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS).
This is according to the NBS Inflation Report for February 2014, presented on Thursday.
Dacic: Serbs in KiM should vote in parliamentary elections
BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's outgoing prime minister, said at a meeting with Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport on Thursday that the Serbian government insists that the parliamentary elections should take place on March 16 in Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) with the assistance of the international missions.
Conference on drafting civil sector development strategy
BELGRADE - The civil society in Serbia has to claim the role which societies have in well-developed democracies - the role of government work supervisor and instigator of democratic processes, participants concluded at the Thursday conference on the strategy for sustainable development of the civil sector.
Dačić promises to protect workers, fight tycoons
Dačić promises to protect workers, fight tycoons
VALJEVO -- The coalition gathered around the SPS promised to voters during a rally in Valjevo that it will create new jobs and protect workers, farmers and pensioners.
Macedonia Mayor Dismisses Threat of Divine Punishment
The mayor of Prilep has acted to calm religious tensions in Macedonia after the head of the Muslim community, Sulejman Rexhepi, wrote on Facebook that Allah would strike him down for his alleged role in the burning of the Charshi-Mosque in Prilep in 2001.
Soup kitchens in KiM get 12 tons of food
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – Serbian government's Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin visited a soup kitchen in Kosovska Mitrovica, northern KiM, to deliver a donation of 12 tons of frozen food on Thursday.
Bulgaria, Macedonia Mull Joint Infrastructure Projects
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin and his Macedonian counterpart, Nikola Poposki, have sent a joint letter to EU seeking aid for joint infrastructure projects.
Working group for Serbia's OSCE chairmanship
Working group for Serbia's OSCE chairmanship
BELGRADE -- The Serbian government formed a working group on Thursday which will be tasked with coordinating the activities of Serbia's chairmanship of the OSCE.
Serbia will hold the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) chairmanship in 2015.
Gov't sets up working group for Serbia's OSCE chairmanship
BELGRADE - The Serbian government formed a working group on Thursday which will be tasked with coordinating the activities of Serbia's chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the government's press office announced.
Serbia will hold the OSCE chairmanship in 2015.