Boris Tadić

SDS President Boris Tadic has said that "the time has come for opposition parties to declare themselves on forming a single election column."

He told a press conference in Belgrade on Tuesday that "discussions are ongoing with the Democratic Party, on the highest as well as on a lower level," and that he expects the SDS to receive an answer "in the coming days."

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, whom we are hosting in Istanbul today, lost his 46-year-old son to cancer last May. When his son Beau was diagnosed with cancer, he was the attorney general of Delaware. Because he was to resign from his post and lose his salary, Joe Biden and his wife Jill thought over what they would do to finance the treatment costs.

The only possible election strategy that could offer any success to Serbia's liberal opposition parties is to create a coalition that could challenge Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's ruling Progressive Party, according to analysts.

Opposition SDS party President Boris Tadic on Monday met with leaders of LDP and LSV parties.

He said afterwards he would "propose to these parties to form an alliance for early parliamentary elections."

Splinter parties from the Democratic Party will having a joint meeting on January 19 to try form a coalition in case early parliamentary elections are called this year.

Serbia needs its current, "incompetent government" changed, leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDS) Boris Tadic said Friday.

Tadic argues that the return of a "strong opposition option" would mean a return of democracy to Serbia.

Serbia's former president, Boris Tadic, has told BIRN that reports that he and his former associates were behind the publication of the video of Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic meeting a drugs gangster were an "insinuation"."If someone accuses me directly of the publication of videos, I will press charges against him immediately," he said.On Tuesday, however, Dacic publicly accused Tadic of being

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on July 7 his government unanimously agreed to send him to a July 11 commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, hours after the United Nations Security Council postponed debate over a resolution to mark the 20th anniversary. 

Their leaders have paid their respects to the victims, begged forgiveness "on their knees," and deplored a "heinous crime," but Serbia and Serbs still stubbornly refuse to call the Srebrenica massacre a genocide, experts say.

President's "fortress on wheels" Mercedes "needs repairs"

BELGRADE -- It will cost RSD 12.2 million (some EUR 100,000) to repair President Tomislav Nikolic's official car, a Mercedes S, the daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting.