Pirot

PIROT - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Serbia would get more EU funds - around 430 mln euros - for a project to reconstruct and modernise a Nis-Dimitrovgrad rail line and build a railway bypass around Nis.

Vucic was inspecting works on the Pirot-Sukovo section of the route.

VRANJE - President of Serbia and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) member Aleksandar Vucic announced on Friday evening talks were underway about a major Western investment in Vranje, southern Serbia, that would be worth over 100 mln euros.

PIROT - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic announced on Wednesday works on a natural gas measurement and regulation station near Pirot, southeastern Serbia, had been completed and that a gas interconnector with Bulgaria was expected to start trial operation soon.

BELGRADE - As part of an ongoing operation aimed at curbing irregular migration, Serbian police found a total 738 irregular migrants in the territory of Subotica, Sombor and Kikinda, northern Serbia, and Pirot, southeastern Serbia, on Thursday, the police said in a statement.

The information was confirmed to "Novosti" by Branislav Nedimovic, a member of the Republic Crisis Staff in the fight against COVID-19, who on this occasion expressed condolences to his family.

According to data obtained by BIRN from the Serbian Ministry of Trade, of the 20 biggest exporters from Serbia to Russia, only five are Serbian-owned. Fourteen are subsidiaries of companies headquartered in the EU. In the top 10, only two are Serbian.

Mayor of the nearby City of Pirot said this to Juzne Vesti news portal.

However, so far there is no official confirmation of the sale from the former owner Tigar Pirot and the change of ownership hasn't been listed on the Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA) site, writes Juzne Vesti.

An earthquake measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale was registered in the territory of Serbia, near the border with Bulgaria, bgnes reported.

EUR 12.2 million will be invested in the border region between Bulgaria and Serbia. This is reported by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works.

Leader of the opposition SRS and presidential candidate on Tuesday visited southern Serbia, where he said that Russia was "returning to the Balkans."

According to him, this is a process that "nobody can stop."