Aleksandar Vučić

Party leaders cast their ballots (photos)

BELGRADE -- SNS party leader Aleksandar Vučić said after casting his ballot that Sunday was "a big and important day for Serbia," while "any outcome is possible."

BELGRADE - State officials, party leaders and candidates for MPs voted on Sunday in the early parliamentary elections in Serbia shortly after the polling stations were opened or later in the morning.

BELGRADE - Serbian government's special adviser and Italy's former foreign minister Franco Frattini said in Belgrade on Tuesday Serbia's EU integration would be completed once it becomes a full member of the EU, adding that Serbia's key priorities for the coming period were to overcome the economic crisis, that is provide jobs for most of the people and combat the gray economy.

BELGRADE - New Democratic Party (NDS) leader Boris Tadic said on Monday that the new Serbian government must be formed soon after the March 16 parliamentary elections to avoid the country's economic collapse.

A social consensus is also needed on cutting costs as well as on investments and kick-starting economic development, Tadic told TV Pink.

"Nothing is holding back South Stream project"

BELGRADE -- There are no misunderstandings between the Serbian and Russian partners regarding the South Stream gas pipeline project, says Dušan Bajatović.

KOPAONIK - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's outgoing prime minister and leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), said on Tuesday that he could not say which parties would form a new government, after early parliamentary elections set for March 16, and whether the SPS would be part of a ruling coalition.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Tuesday with member of the French parliament and former president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Jean-Claude Mignon and thanked him for the support for Serbia's EU integration and efforts to solve the Kosovo issue.