Zoran Đinđić

Attempt on Beko's life "looks amateurish, but may not be"

BELGRADE -- Criminologist Zlatko Nikolić says officials' statements that Milan Beko was shot "by amateurs" amount to an attempt to "reassure the public."

Šešelj reveals he "won't return to Hague voluntarily"

BELGRADE -- The idea of a Greater Serbia remains the guiding idea of the Serb Radicals (SRS), the party's leader Vojislav Šešelj has told a news conference.

PM: Good relations with Russia, EU remains goal

LONDON -- Aleksandar Vučić said in London late on Monday that "Serbia wants to maintain good relations with Russia but that does not change its goal, its path to the EU."

Parliament ends debate in principle on labor law

BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament late on Tuesday finished the debate in principle on the proposed amendments to labor and pension insurance laws.

Serbia's EU membership by 2020 "realistic goal"

BELGRADE -- Germany's former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stated on Thursday that the government in Belgrade has "a realistic goal for Serbia to join the EU by 2020."

This is the case as it is "ready to carry out reforms despite all difficulties on the pathway," he was quoted as saying.

Arkan's former bodyguard shot dead

BELGRADE -- A shooting incident that took place in Belgrade before noon on Wednesday has left one person dead and two more injured.

The victim has been named as Rade Rakonjac, a former bodyguard of Željko Ražnatović Arkan, who was himself shot and killed in a Belgrade hotel in 2000.