Swoboda

BELGRADE - Completing the EU membership talks by 2020 is a realistic target for Serbia, Hannes Swoboda, the president of the Social Democrats' group in the European Parliament, has said.

Economic reforms should be the new Serbian government's priority, Swoboda said in an interview published by the Belgrade-based Vecernje novosti daily on Monday.

BELGRADE - The Bosnian scenario is not looming over Serbia, and the elections will not affect the negotiations with the European Union, said Hannes Swoboda, president of the faction of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (EP).

BELGRADE - European Parliament (EP) Special Rapporteur on the Western Balkans Hannes Swoboda has said that he is unpleasantly surprised by the arrest of leader of the Citizens' Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic who is still in detention in Pristina.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday, during a meeting with President of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament Hannes Swoboda, that Serbia is a factor of stability and prosperity in the region.