Zorana Mihajlović

Infrastructure andTransport Minister Zorana Mihajlovic put into service on Friday a new Russian-made train that will operate along the Belgrade-Vrsac line.

Together with Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin and representatives of the Serbian and Russian rail companies, Mihajlovic traveled on the new train from Belgrade to Vrsac, in the northeast of the country.

Turkish companies are interested in investing in Serbia, in particular in infrastructure projects, Turkish Ambassador to Serbia Mehmet Kemal Bozay has said.

Serbia strives to join the EU "exclusively for the sake of Serbian citizens," a deputy prime minister has said in an editorial published by Politika daily.

Serbia is building a modern rail network with the ongoing projects worth nearly EUR 2.5bn, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Zorana Mihajlovic has said.

She spoke on Wednesday in Belgrade during the opening of the inaugural conference of the South East Europe Strategic Alliance for Rail Innovation (SEESARI).

Zorana Mihajlovic said on Monday that works on the construction of the Belgrade-Budapest railway would begin in the second half of 2016.

Zorana Mihajlovic has told Radio Free Europe that Serbia "plans to, by 2020, become a part of the EU and not of the alliance of former Soviet republics."

The opening of the first negotiation chapters in Serbia's EU accession talks puts an end to all dilemmas as to where Serbia is heading, says Zorana Mihajlovic.

Zorana Mihajlovic said that the proposed changes to the two laws on railways aim at introducing further reforms to the Serbian Railways and rail transport.

An agreement was signed on Tuesday to build the Ljubovija-Bratunac bridge across the Drina River.

The document was signed by Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and the representative of a consortium of local companies which will be engaged in the construction.

French Ambassador to Serbia Christine Moro has said that "a French airline" is interested in the process of privatizing of Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport.

Moro on Monday met with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic, who welcomed the interest in the privatization of the profitable Serbian airport.