Jadranka Joskimovic

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joskimovic said on Wednesday Serbia was moving towards membership in the EU so its people could have a better life, and that the concept of stabilising the European economy matched the reforms in Serbia.

EU enlargement policy "focuses on economy"

BELGRADE -- Minister without Portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joskimović says Serbia is moving towards EU membership "so its people could have a better life."

According to her, "the concept of stabilizing the European economy matched the reforms in Serbia."

Serbia's government held a special session in the southern city of Nis on Monday to which they traveled by bus.

The cabinet was in Nis to mark the 100th anniversary of the declaration of outbreak of war between Austria-Hungary and the then Kingdom of Serbia in 1914, the event that touched off a four-year European conflagration.

Serbian government and Parliament officials have been instructed not to back international moves against Russia, a recent report suggests.