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BELGRADE - The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) and the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade have awarded annual prizes for investigative journalism in the electronic, print and online media categories.

BELGRADE – Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday that the state will withdraw from all media.

“This is the idea I have. I can see the pressure right now as everybody wants the state to remain in the media. It is because they are not able to make a market for themselves,” Vucic said for Nedeljnik, a Belgrade-based weekly.

PM: State will withdraw from media ownership

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says the state will withdraw from the media ownership, and that before the summer break new media laws would be adopted.

"Absolutely. That is my concept," Vučić told the Belgrade weekly Nedeljnik when asked whether the state would withdraw from the media.

EU commissioner "shares same goal" with PM

BELGRADE -- Stefan Fule expects the screening for 18 chapters in Serbia's EU accession process to be finished or in the final stage by the end of the Greek presidency.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic presented on Monday to European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele plan for Serbia's fastest possible advancement towards the EU membership.

“Of course, everything else will depend on the member states,” Vucic said at a news briefing after the talks with Fuele.

EU requests from Vucic to impose sanctions to Russia

The EU enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuehle has come to offer support to new Serbian Government on its path to the EU and to conducting announced economic reforms. But not for that only…

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Saturday with Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Manzo, who presented him with a congratulatory note from Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and an invitation to visit Italy.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic said that the decision to start government sessions at the exact time as scheduled and the decrees on working hours in the public sector and the use of official vehicles indicate a new system of work and responsibility.

Minister sees "new system of work and way of thinking"

BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić says a decision "to start cabinet sessions at the exact time as scheduled" indicated "a new system of work and responsibility."

Ashton was "not completely honest," says analyst

BRUSSELS -- Catherine Ashton's visit to Serbia represents "an unusually strong expression of support for the new government and the country's EU integration."

This is the conclusion of two Brussels-based political analysts who spoke for the Tanjug news agency on Friday.