Residents of the Serbian capital have been able to pay their electricity bills via text message since May 23. For now the system is available only to Dina card holders who use the Telekom mobile network, but the plan is to offer the same service to all Belgraders by the …
Read More »New Serbian President expects clear answers from EU
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic believes that Serbia has done everything asked of it in order to start EU accession talks in the fall. “I expect to finally find out in Brussels what no one in Serbia has heard so far, which is whether
Read More »Vuk Jeremic to preside over the UN General Assembly
Vuk Jeremic, the outgoing Serbian Foreign Minister, has become the first Serb to preside over the UN General Assembly. Representatives of the UN member states have elected Vuk Jeremic of the Democratic Party in Serbia as president of the UN General Assembly.
Read More »Stefan Fule to be present at Nikolic’s inauguration ceremony
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule is going to attend the inauguration ceremony of Serbia’s President Tomislav Nikolic. According to Fule’s spokesperson Peter Stano, the EU Enlargement Commissioner is going to call on the continuation of European reforms in Serbia.
Read More »Nikolic and Tadic close to form a parliamentary majority
Boris Tadic of the Democrats and Serbia’s newly elected President, Tomislav Nikolic, met on Wednesday for a second time to discuss the formation of a new government. “We are close to forming a parliamentary majority and I am convinced that
Read More »Croatian President says his country seeks good relations with Serbia
Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday in Vukovar that his country seeks to create good relations with every country, and that includes Serbia. “I hope that the positions of newly elected Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will change. We have made significant progress in relations in the past two to …
Read More »Serbia held meeting on recent Kosovo events
Serbian President together with several ministers held a meeting to discuss the latest events between from northern Kosovo between Serbs and NATO peacekeepers. The meeting was held on Friday, right after KFOR started to dismantle the Serb barricades near Zvecan, a Serb-run area in northern Kosovo. Serbia’s Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac, …
Read More »Tomislav Nikolic was sworn in as Serbia’s President
Tomislav Nikolic was sworn in as Serbia’s new president at the inaugural session by taking the oath before members of the Serbian parliament. “I solemnly swear to devote all my efforts to preserve the sovereignty and integrity of the territory of the Republic of Serbia, including Kosovo and Metohija as its …
Read More »Serbian Parliament to analyze options for recognising Abkhazia, South Ossetia
During the visit to Moscow newly elected Serbia President Tomislav Nikolic commented that the Serbian parliament might examine the option for possible recognition of the independence of the separated Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Read More »New Serbian President seeks better relations with Montenegro
Serbian President-elect Tomislav Nikolic said that he wanted Serbia and Montenegro to have a much better relationship in the future. He underlined that Serbs and Montenegrins have a lot in common. “I recognize Montenegro as a state, but I do not recognize the difference between the Serbs and Montenegrins, because …
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