Progressives leave other parties far behind in new poll
Source: Beta
BELGRADE -- The ruling Serb Progressive Party (SNS) enjoys the support of 36 percent of Serbians, a new Faktor Plus poll has shown.
A scene from Zemun on Thursday, where local elections are expected to be scheduled (B92)
Beta is reporting that the opposition Democratic Party (DS), and the three-party coalition around the ruling Socialists (SPS) came in second and third with 15.3 and 11.8 percent respectively.
The telephone survey was conducted this month on a sample of 1,280 adult respondents across the entire territory of Serbia.
According to the Faktor Plus research, the parties that would pass the five-percent election threshold are the opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), backed by 7.3 percent of respondents, the ruling United Regions of Serbia (URS) (5.2 percent), and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) with 5.1 percent.
The most popular party leader is the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić, with 56 percent of respondents giving him their approval, followed by Democratic Party president Dragan Đilas and Serbian Socialist Party head Ivica Dačić, with 23 percent each.
petak 1.02.2013 | 17:01 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Former IM Ivica Dačić’s Chief of Staff Branko Lazarević has denied allegations that he has ever had any ties with drug lord Darko Šarić and his gang.
petak 1.02.2013 | 15:58 | Source: B92, Beta, Blic | Comments: (13) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian and Kosovo Presidents Tomislav Nikolić and Atifete Jahjaga will meet on February 6, the Serbian president has confirmed on his Twitter account.
petak 1.02.2013 | 15:45 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (15) | Send comment
BUJANOVAC -- Ethnic Albanian parties from southern Serbia organized a protest in Bujanovac on Friday and demanded that a memorial for fallen policemen be removed.
petak 1.02.2013 | 15:23 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (14) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that Serbia and Turkey have a joint vision of the region in which countries would be peacefully integrated.
petak 1.02.2013 | 12:40 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (12) | Send comment
PREŠEVO -- The Preševo municipality’s local administration has filed a request for the legalization of a monument to a terror group that was recently removed.
petak 1.02.2013 | 11:56 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia's Regional Development Minister Verica Kalanović has said that the talk of early elections is exaggerated.
petak 1.02.2013 | 10:51 | Source: B92, RTS, Tanjug | Comments: (17) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Several state officials had meetings with members of runaway drug lord Darko Šarić’s gang in 2008 and 2009, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) has reported.
petak 1.02.2013 | 09:36 | Source: B92 | Comments: (4) | Send comment
RUDARE -- A new roadblock set up by Northern Kosovo Serbs on Thursday afternoon is hindering traffic in the northern Kosovo village of Rudare.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 19:55 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Former deputy leader of the now opposition Democrats (DS) and MP Dušan Petrović has been expelled from the party.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 19:17 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek held on Thursday in Belgrade a series of meetings with top Serbian officials.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 16:50 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić's foreign policy can be rated positively and he personally has exceeded all expectations, foreign policy experts believe.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 15:55 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (13) | Send comment
ZVEČAN -- Local Serbs in northern Kosovo on Thursday afternoon once again set up roadblocks on the Priština-Raška road.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 14:30 | Source: Politika | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Executive Board President Branko Ružić says PM Ivica Dačić’s good will has been taken advantage of in a hidden camera show.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 14:03 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (10) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated in his annual report published on Thursday that the situation in Kosovo "improved in 2012".
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 13:23 | Source: RTS, Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Vuk Jeremić has said that Kosovo is "far from the UN (seat)".
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 12:11 | Source: Blic, Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian PM Ivica Dačić has launched a proceeding against people responsible for a hidden camera show he was involved in, says Dačić’s advisor Ivica Tončev.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 11:16 | Source: Beta | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s Deputy PM Suzana Grubješić has assessed that a report of the European Commission (EC) on Serbia will be positive.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 10:50 | Source: Politika, Tanjug | Comments: (48) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm has said that Serbia's compliance with Kosovo's UN membership is not a condition for Belgrade.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 09:53 | Source: B92 | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek told B92 that he was “satisfied with his visit and talks” in the southern town of Bujanovac.
četvrtak 31.01.2013 | 09:24 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (16) | Send comment
ZVEČAN -- KFOR troops removed concrete barricades from the Priština-Raška road in the village of Rudare early on Thursday.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 20:21 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (37) | Send comment
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Thousands of Serbs gathered on Wednesday in northern Kosovska Mitrovica for a rally under the slogan, "Stop Brussels fraud and deceptions".
sreda 30.01.2013 | 20:18 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (10) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has said that "nobody wishes to establish any kind of border between Serbia and Kosovo".
sreda 30.01.2013 | 18:14 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Pierre Mirel stated in Belgrade on Wednesday that the Serbian government managed to continue or launch a number of reforms within a short period of time.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 16:14 | Source: Beta, Tanjug, Anadolu | Comments: (1) | Send comment
SARAJEVO -- Serbian PM Ivica Dačić said Wednesday that Serbia was ready to fully commit to solving the problem of migrations both on the national and regional level.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 15:40 | Source: Beta | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Vincent Degert believes that the EU will set a date for the beginning of the EU accession negotiations with Serbia in June.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 14:56 | Source: B92 | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Not a single politician will say or decide what will happen with businessman Milan Beko, prosecutors will, says First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vučić.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 13:56 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (16) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The first summit of the Serbian and Cypriot governments, which will see a number of bilateral and plenary meetings, started on Wednesday in Belgrade.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 13:20 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Swedish embassy in Belgrade has released that the Swedish government has not launched any initiative to reintroduce visas for Serbian citizens.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 12:44 | Source: B92 | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Businessman Milan Beko is intelligent and knows how to watch his back so people around him are more likely do go down than he is, says Jorgovanka Tabaković.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 11:56 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo Director Aleksandar Vulin will visit Klokot, Osojane and Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 11:46 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Representatives of Serbia and of the European Commission (EC) held a plenary meeting of the Enhanced Permanent Dialogue (EPD) on Tuesday in Belgrade.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 10:48 | Source: FoNet, Blic | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- According to reports Swedish Migration and Asylum Policy Minister Tobias Billstrom insists that visas be introduced for citizens of Western Balkan countries.
sreda 30.01.2013 | 09:12 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- Serbia's Deputy PM Suzana Grubješić said Tuesday Serbia's reforms had to continue despite growing skepticism about EU enlargement, both in the EU and Serbia.
utorak 29.01.2013 | 20:16 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The questioning of Serbian businessman Milan Beko lasted for six hour on Tuesday at the Criminal Investigations Police Administration HQ in New Belgrade.
utorak 29.01.2013 | 16:28 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A new poll suggesting a record low support for Serbia's possible future EU membership has apparently not caught the country's MPs by surprise.
utorak 29.01.2013 | 13:44 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (12) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Opposition Democratic Party of Serbia MP Sanda Rašković-Ivić has warned that the government's anti-corruption push will end up jeopardizing its stability.
utorak 29.01.2013 | 10:45 | Source: Danas, Tanjug | Comments: (50) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The support for the country's EU accession has dropped in Serbia to the lowest level recorded in the last decade as in now at 41 percent.
utorak 29.01.2013 | 10:03 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- European Commission Director for the Western Balkans Pierre Mirel will arrive here on Tuesday for meetings with Serbian officials.
utorak 29.01.2013 | 09:42 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE, KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Aleksandar Vulin says "all uncertainties regarding the agreement on integrated crossings management must be clarified when Serbia's and Kosovo's PMs" meet.
utorak 29.01.2013 | 09:11 | Source: Tanjug, Kurir | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Dušan Bajatović has told a Belgrade tabloid that it was "in his personal interests" that all financial abuses in the Azotara case be thoroughly investigated.
ponedeljak 28.01.2013 | 17:09 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (32) | Send comment
SKOPJE -- PM Ivica Dačić stated on Monday in Skopje that there were "only two open issues between Serbia and Macedonia".
ponedeljak 28.01.2013 | 16:24 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A commission set up to consider all the facts known so far in the investigations into the murders of journalists in Serbia today met for the first time.
ponedeljak 28.01.2013 | 15:56 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is working on organizing the first meeting between Tomislav Nikolić and Atifete Jahjaga, Tanjug is reporting.
ponedeljak 28.01.2013 | 15:53 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Leader of the opposition LDP Čedomir Jovanović on Monday resigned as member of the Parliament Committee for Constitutional Issues and the Judiciary.
ponedeljak 28.01.2013 | 15:45 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić on Monday expressed his expectation that fugitive suspected drug lord Darko Šarić would be located and arrested "in the first half of 2013".
ponedeljak 28.01.2013 | 11:40 | Source: B92 | Comments: (67) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Belgrade is ready to reach a compromise with Priština and is offering essential autonomy - "and perhaps more than that", says Krstimir Pantić.
ponedeljak 28.01.2013 | 09:08 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
PIROT, BELGRADE -- PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić has denied that his former chief of staff Branko Lazarević had ties to fugitive suspected drug lord Darko Šarić.
nedelja 27.01.2013 | 15:55 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- Serbia's President Tomislav Nikolić has conferred with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the CELAC-EU summit in Chile.
nedelja 27.01.2013 | 15:45 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Democratic Party (DS) has accused the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of persecuting Democrats and their leader Dragan Đilas.
nedelja 27.01.2013 | 13:47 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (16) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Advisors to the Serbian and Kosovo presidents Marko Đurić and Ramush Tahiri have agreed that it is possible to reach a compromise solution to the Kosovo issue.
nedelja 27.01.2013 | 12:55 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (10) | Send comment
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA --
Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Krstimir Pantić has said that Priština wants to provoke conflicts in northern Kosovo so KFOR would launch a military intervention.
nedelja 27.01.2013 | 12:20 | Source: Beta, Politika | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) official Nebojša Stefanović says that the ruling majority in Belgrade will not change in the next 30 days.
nedelja 27.01.2013 | 11:27 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment
PIROT -- Serbian PM Ivica Dačić has said that Serbia wanted to join the EU not because someone was forcing it but because it would ensure a better life for its citizens.
subota 26.01.2013 | 15:49 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
SANTIAGO DE CHILE --
Serbia’s President Tomislav Nikolić has met with his Chilean counterpart Sebastian Pinera and discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation.
subota 26.01.2013 | 15:45 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (19) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- EU High Representative in Kosovo Samuel Žbogar has condemned the latest wave of violence in Kosovo and desecration of Serb cemeteries.
subota 26.01.2013 | 14:31 | Source: Beta, Danas | Comments: (27) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader says PM Ivica Dačić should resign because of “harmful decisions that are pushing Serbia deeper into the crisis“.
subota 26.01.2013 | 13:38 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A draft law on South Stream gas pipeline, that will speed up expropriation of land and preparations for construction works in Serbia, has arrived in parliament.
subota 26.01.2013 | 13:20 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (49) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- U.S. expert for the Balkans Daniel Serwer told daily Večernje novosti that Serbia would not join the EU in the next decade.
subota 26.01.2013 | 11:39 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The First Municipal Prosecution has indicted Saša Pejović, 29, for cutting in President Tomislav Nikolić's motorcade last year.
