Serbia

A gathering of Muslim worshipers planned to welcome Bosnia’s Grand Mufti, Mustafa Ceric, to Serbia, has been banned by Serbian Police, citing safety concerns. The meeting was supposed to take place in Tutin, southwest Serbia, on Monday.

A Serb bank operating in Kosovo, Komercialna Banka, that was granted a license in 2006 by Kosovo’s Administration, is not reporting its activities to the country’s Central Bank. Komercialna Banka is located in Mitrovica, Gracanica, Zubin Potok, Leposavic, Zvecan, Slivova, Shterpce and Dragash, areas populated by Serbian minority in Kosovo. 

Security in the Serbian capital will be at its highest possible level for the visit of US Vice President Joe Biden, said Interior Minister Ivica Dacic Thursday. “Everyone knows fine well how security operates when there are security risks, and I’d ask citizens to show understanding for measures such as …

President Fatmir Sejdiu lashed out at Serbia’s continuing practice of paying public sector workers in northern Kosovo, and has accused Serbia’s government of using EU funds to do so. The president said that the wages Belgrade offers Serb health and education workers in Kosovo are exceptionally larger than that of …

PRISTINA, Kosovo Serbs in a northern Mitrovica neighbourhood started rebuilding five houses Wednesday (May 13th), closely monitored by EULEX officials. The situation seems to be calm, in contrast to periods over the past two weeks, when Serbs had protested repairs to homes owned by ethnic Albanians situated in the Serb …

Pieter Feith, the EU’s Special Envoy to Kosovo, says neither Belgrade nor Pristina will be able to realise their EU dreams unless they mend relations. “I’m not saying that Belgrade needs to recognise Kosovo’s independence, but there has to exist at least minimal cooperation between the two sides on issues …

The European Commission has expressed concern about the way Serbia issues its identification documents, and is concerned that passports could be given out to “all and sundry”, the Blic newspaper reports. The paper says that as a further guarantee for visa liberalisation, Brussels wants Serbia’s passport issuance system to become …

The right wing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) launched a campaign for early parliamentary elections at a rally held in Nis Wednesday, calling it “Serbia’s Future Begins Today”. The SNS at the rally claimed it was going to stand for getting tougher on crime and corruption, promote decentralisation of government, and …

PRISTINA, Kosovo Integrating the Serb minority remains the chief challenge facing Kosovo more than a year after Pristina declared its independence, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report Tuesday (May 12th). According to the document, Belgrade has channelled substantial funds into Serb municipalities, but with limited results. Parallel …

Serbia’s state owned gas company will on Friday sign an agreement with Russian gas giant Gazprom for the construction of a part of the South Stream gas pipeline that will go through Serbia. General Director of Srbijagas Dusan Bajatovic said he will sign the agreement with the president of Gazprom …