Politics

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Russia, China back UN-led organs probe

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 20:42 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

NEW YORK -- Russia's UN envoy has called on the Security Council to support Serbia's initiative for a Kosovo human organ trafficking probe under the auspices of the UN.

The partially frozen Sava River in Belgrade (Tanjug)

Ice shuts down river traffic in Serbia

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 20:49 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- The Serbian government recommended new measures for conserving energy and fuel while extremely low temperatures persist; river traffic shut down.

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FM: Negotiations only way to solution

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 17:06 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment

NEW YORK -- Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said in New York on Wednesday that negotiations were the only way to reach a sustainable and lasting solution for Kosovo.

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Ruling coalition "uncertain of majority" in parliament

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 18:33 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- The first working day of the Serbian parliament in 2012 was marked with the uncertainty whether MPs would be able to form a majority.

Gianfranco Fini and Boris Tadić (Beta)

Italian official: Serbia fulfilled all EU conditions

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 16:05 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Italian Chamber of Deputies President Gianfranco Fini said on Wednesday Serbia had fulfilled all the conditions and should be granted the EU candidate status.

Robert Cooper, Borislav Stefanović (Beta, file)

EU mediator, Belgrade negotiator meet in Vienna

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 18:12 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment

VIENNA -- EU mediator in the Belgrade-Priština dialogue Robert Cooper and head of the Belgrade negotiating team Borislav Stefanović conferred in Vienna on Wednesday.

Ivica Dačić (Tanjug, file)

“Probe will shed light on attempted escape”

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 13:27 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says that an investigation will show whether Zemun gang members had some help in an attempt to escape from prison.

Martin Schulz

"Time not right for EU enlargement"

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 16:57 | Source: NIN | Comments: (1) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Serbia deserves the candidate status but I believe that now is not a good moment for the EU enlargement, European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz says.

The meeting of the committee (Beta)

Committee on Kosovo votes on government report

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 09:27 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Serbian parliament's Committee on Kosovo discussed Tuesday the government report on steps taken to stabilize the situation in Kosovo in the past three months.

Vojislav Koštunica (DSS)

Daily: DSS, Progressives to hold post-election talks

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 09:53 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (1) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) will try to form a joint state policy after elections, daily Večernje novosti writes.

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Serbia has 85 registered political parties

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 13:55 | Source: Danas, Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Two new political parties have been registered in Serbia: the Movement for Serbia's Development and the Roma Union of Serbia.

Hashim Thaci (file)

Thaci against "special status" for north

Wednesday 8.02.2012 | 14:28 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment

PRIŠTINA -- Hashim Thaci once again rejected the possibility of a special status for northern part of Kosovo, said reports from Priština on Wednesday.

Yesterday's news Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Candidacy in jeopardy unless dialogue resumes

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 13:20 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (26) | Send comment

BRUSSELS -- Serbia will not become a candidate for EU membership if Belgrade fails to, by the end of next week, reach an agreement with Priština on Kosovo's representation.

Borislav Stefanović (Tanjug, file)

Negotiator: Belgrade constructive, Priština stalling

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 17:01 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Borislav Stefanović says Belgrade maintains a constructive approach, insisting on the continuation of the dialogue and providing new solutions.

Goran Bogdanović (file)

Referendum "will damage Serbia politically"

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:40 | Source: Tanjug, Press | Comments: (24) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Goran Bogdanović has said that holding a referendum in Kosovo's north might not be a huge economic damage, but would cost Serbia dearly in political terms.

Vojislav Koštunica (Tanjug, file)

"Next govt. should declare political neutrality"

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:42 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (15) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Vojislav Koštunica has voiced his opinion that following elections - expected this spring - a new government should declare political and military neutrality.

(Tanjug, file)

Parliament committee on Kosovo to convene

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:00 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Chairman of the Serbian Parliament's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija Ljubomir Kragović has scheduled a session of this body for Tuesday.

Firefighters are seen earlier this week removing icicles from a building in Belgrade (Beta)

Icicle kills woman in Belgrade

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 15:19 | Source: B92, Beta, Blic, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- A woman died today after an icicle formed on the roof of a building in Belgrade fell on directly on her, police sources have confirmed.

A view of the partially frozen Sava River in Belgrade (Beta)

Big freeze continues, ice forms on large rivers

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:38 | Source: B92 | Comments: (1) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Serbia went through another extremely cold night, to wake up to morning temperatures ranging from minus 15 to minus eight degrees centigrade.

Novak and girlfriend Jelena pose for reporters in London on Monday (Beta/AP)

Đoković named Laureus World Sportsman of Year

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:45 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment

LONDON -- Serbian tennis player and World No. 1 Novak Đoković has been named Sportsman of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in London.

Zemun Clan members attempt escape

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 09:23 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Two former members of the Zemun Clan criminal group last night attempted to escape their detention union in Belgrade, local media are reporting.

The meeting in Belgrade on Monday (Beta)

IMF, Serbian government launch talks

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 09:26 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- Serbian officials met in Belgrade on Monday with a visiting IMF mission and opened talks on the first review of the current precautionary stand-by arrangement.

"2012 inflation within planned framework"

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:08 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

BELGRADE -- The 2012 inflation will be within the planned framework of 5.5 to 6 percent", considering the indicators at the end of 2011, says IZIT's Saša Đogović.

People are seen displaying an Albanian flag in a town in southern Serbia (Beta, file)

Councilors wish to name street after terrorist

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:04 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (53) | Send comment

BUJANOVAC -- Councilors from ethnic Albanian parties in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, have adopted a proposal to change the names of several local streets.

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Another train derails in region due to snow

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 16:58 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment

ZAGREB -- A train that was traveling on the Split-Zagreb line in Croatia on Tuesday derailed near the town of Knin, said reports.

Sergei Lavrov (Beta/AP, file)

Russian foreign minister visits Syria

Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 17:07 | Source: euronews, RIA Novosti | Comments: (13) | Send comment

MOSCOW -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is on Tuesday visiting Syria amid ongoing clashes in that Middle Eastern country.

Will Serbia become EU candidate in March?

Opinions & Analyses

Germany's role in Europe and European debt crisis

1.02.2012. | Comments: 5
An EU flag flies in Athens (Beta/AP)

"Germany must have a free-trade zone in Europe. Germany also needs robust demand in Europe. Germany also wants prudence in borrowing practices. And Germany must not see a return to the anti-German feeling of previous epochs."

B92 TV

KFOR spokesman: Institutions in north "not parallel"

22.12.2011. | Comments: 3
KFOR troops and local Serbs at Jagnjenica on Nov. 30 (Beta)

A spokesman for the NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, says that this international mission "does not think there are parallel and illegal institutions in northern (Serb-dominated) Kosovo".

Reports

Balkans in HRW's annual World Report

23.01.2012. | Comments: 0

The Human Rights Watch international NGO has published its 22nd annual World Report, summarizing human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011.