Belgrade University

BELGRADE - Acting on behalf of the Italian government, Italian Ambassador to Serbia Giuseppe Manzo Monday presented Belgrade University with Italian grammar and literature books for use by the lecturers and students of its Faculty of Philology Italian Studies Department, a symbolic act to mark the beginning of the 14th Annual Italian Language Week in the World.

BELGRADE- Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology Felipe Casanueva from Spain received an honorary doctorate from the University of Belgrade at the Rectorate building on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (ETF), the Faculty of Organisational Sciences (FON) and Faculty of Physical Chemistry of the University of Belgrade (UB), the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the Novi Sad University and the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the University of Nis rank best on the list of top five universities in Serbia, the latest faculty-related survey conduc

BELGRADE - Belgrade University awarded the honorary title of doctor of science to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Belgrade University Senate released at its session on Wednesday.

The Serbian website Pescanik on Wednesday published a study alleging that over 30 per cent of the thesis of the Mayor of Belgrade was lifted from other people's work.

Some 33 per cent of Sinisa Mali's university thesis was copied from other people’s work, it said, and the content of numerous pages was copied almost completely, it added.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A celebration was held at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday to mark the Day of the Pristina University, which is temporarily seated in this city.

BELGRADE - The delegations of the City of Belgrade and the Japanese City of Yokohama discussed mutual cooperation on Wednesday, especially in the areas of infrastructure, culture and tourism.

The Senate of Belgrade University is to ask the Conference of Universities of Serbia, comprised of both state and private universities, to form a commission to review claims that the Interior Minister plagiarised his PhD thesis.

Ivo Viskovic, a former Serbian ambassador to Germany, says Vucic's meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday will focus on Serbia's EU integration process.

According to him, Serbia can expect German help on its path to EU membership. "This help would be mainly of an advisory and economic character through stimulating German investment in Serbia," Viskovic told BIRN.

EU enlargement process "could slow down"

BELGRADE -- Slovenian President Borut Pahor stated on Friday that the results of elections for the European Parliament might slow down the EU enlargement process.

Serbia, he added, will have Slovenia's full support in the accession talks with Brussels.