Boris Tadić

BELGRADE - European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn spoke with officials of a number of Serbian opposition parties at the seat of the EU Delegation to Belgrade on Thursday.

They accused the public service of regularly breaking the law, and blocking the opposition.

None of the opposition leaders who showed up - including Dragan Djilas, Boris Tadic, Zoran Zivkovic, Vuk Jeremic, Sasa Jankovic, and Sanda Raskovic-Ivic - spoke at the gathering.

Serbian Orthodox Bishop Teodosije led the funeral service and said that Ivanovic was respected in Kosovo and in Serbia, but also abroad, and that it "was not rare" for Albanians to also respect him, and that he would be "deeply missed by everyone."

Ivanovic, a Serb politician in northern Kosovo, was gunned down by unknown perpetrators in front of his office in northern Kosovska Mitrovica early on Tuesday.

Opposition leaders, including Dragan Sutanovac, Boris Tadic, Zoran Zivkovic, Marinika Tepic, Vuk Jeremic, Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, Dijana Vukomanovic, and Dragan Djilas gathered in Belgrade in front of St. Sava's Temple.

According to the Serbian defense minister, "this actually means the return of the United Nations to the negotiations."

Vulin also said that Serbia was "under great pressure from Albanians who are trying to impose the United States as participants in the dialogue."

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he does not believe that a change to the format of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is possible.

Speaking for Prva TV late on Monday, Dacic also said that he had no information that former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could become her country's special envoy for the Balkans.

Speaking for Prva TV late on Monday, Dacic also said that he had no information that former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could become her country's special envoy for the Balkans.

The Swedish furniture giant, IKEA, plans to invest in neighboring Serbia over EUR 200 million over the next five years, according to a news release by Western Labor Minister Zoran Djordjevic.

The company has already invested EUR 60 million in the country and hired 330 employees for its Belgrade site, which started work about a month ago.

It was Vuk Jeremic, Boris Tadic, Borko Stefanovic and their associates who were in power when the dialogue on Kosovo was moved from the UN in the EU.

Opposition SDS party leader and ex Serbian president for two terms Boris Tadic says that "only a united opposition could remove Aleksandar Vucic from power."

However, he added - the project of "uniting" the opposition against "the current regime" should not be a project to "strengthen or coalesce any one individual party."