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A tale of two protests
Although the announced counter rally, organized by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), gathered a decent number of SNS supporters on Friday, May 26, the heavy rain exposed their weak will. Opponents of the regime uploaded numerous videos of protesters who did not even attend the rally, and who, even before it started, went back to […]
Tensions in North Kosovo continue – KFOR boosts its presence
This morning, the Kosovo police threw tear gas at the employees of the municipality of Zvečan who tried to enter the building several times. As reported by the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS), the employees tried on several occasions to break through the cordon of special units of the Kosovo police stationed in front of the […]
Analysts: “Vučić is scared because he’s losing support”
Despite drawing in tens of thousands of people (some estimates say over a hundred of thousand), the Serbia against Violence protests have all passed without a single incident and have a clear goal – the removal of those the protesters consider responsible for the atmosphere that led to two unprecedented tragedies in Serbia. To counter […]
Freedom House report – Serbia slid from democracy into autocracy
In the latest Freedom House ‘Nations in Transit’ report, for the fourth year in a row, Serbia was not classified as a democracy but as a “transitional or hybrid regime” in which the democratic institutions are fragile and there are significant challenges in the protection of political rights and civil liberties. Serbia’s democracy score, which […]
The government’s failure after failure – What will happen after the May 26th protest?
After the Serbia against Violence protest last Friday, which gathered tens of thousands of citizens, it is clear that the protesters who were peacefully walking in Belgrade did not come there because they were invited by the opposition parties, but primarily because the Serbian government keeps failing them and they are getting increasingly irritated by […]
New criteria for foreign investor subsidies
The Serbian government has amended the Decree on determining the criteria for awarding incentives to attract direct investments, raising the threshold for the required minimum investment. Namely, in order for investors to be able to count on the state’s help, they need to invest a minimum of EUR 300,000, instead of the previous EUR 100,000. Also, the […]
Outdoor French film festival throughout Serbia
The French film festival will be held from June 14 to 18 at several locations in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš. The festival aims to promote the most current film productions from France and provide an insight into contemporary French culture. In Belgrade, film screenings will take place on the banks of the Sava and […]
The Italy in Fashion exhibition extended to June 1
Due to great interest, the Italy in Fashion exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade will be extended until June 1. The exhibition showcases 50 legendary dresses and costumes worn by Hollywood divas in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the clothes selected by Stefano Dominella, patron of the Gattinoni fashion house, Dominella can be […]
What did the census show about Serbia’s population?
The average age of the population of Serbia is 43.8 years and women are, on average, older than men by about three years (the average age of women is 45.2 years, and of men 42.4 years). Compared to the 2011 Census, the average age has increased by about one and a half years, according to […]
Quicker journey from Serbia to Greece this summer thanks to Open Balkans
Starting this summer, drivers from Serbia will be able to pay toll in North Macedonia without stopping their vehicles. The same will apply to Macedonian drivers using Serbian roads. Serbian drivers will pay toll in North Macedonia with a single TAG without any additional device or card needed. This singular electronic toll system applies only […]
China’s Minal to open a factory in Serbia
Minal Europe Green Material submitted a request to the Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection for an environmental impact assessment related to the construction of their automotive industry complex. The Chinese company plans to build an automotive parts factory in the town of Šabac that will span over 16,000 square metres, thus marking the beginning of […]
More focus on capital-intensive instead of labour-intensive investments
By amending the Regulation on determining the criteria for awarding incentives to attract direct investments, the state raised the threshold for minimum investments, and the division of local self-governments according to the level of development was abolished in favour of five regions. Economist and director of LIBEK, Mihailo Gajić, say that the amendments to the […]
Serbia’s Simpo and Macedonia’s Leov to open a factory – 200 new jobs
Furniture producer Simpo from the southern Serbian town of Vranje and the Leov Company from North Macedonia have decided to form a company called Simpo-Leov, based in Vranje, which will produce electrical appliances, primarily buffers and water heaters. Simpo will provide the production facility and ancillary infrastructure, while Leov will invest in equipment and know-how. […]
New criteria for foreign investor subsidies
The Serbian government has amended the Decree on determining the criteria for awarding incentives to attract direct investments, raising the threshold for the required minimum investment. Namely, in order for investors to be able to count on the state’s help, they need to invest a minimum of EUR 300,000, instead of the previous EUR 100,000. Also, the […]
Nidec opens two factories in Novi Sad
Japanese electric motor manufacturer Nidec Corporation opened two factories – one that will produce automotive inverters and other electronic control units – in Serbia’s northern city of Novi Sad on Thursday. The factory will serve as a central base for the company’s production activities in Europe, Nidec said in a press release. Nidec started building […]
Austria’s Electroplast Packaging opens a factory in Kruševac
Yet another foreign company has decided to invest in the southern Serbian town of Kruševac. Austrian company Electroplast Packaging has relocated its production facility from Hungary to Serbia. The company’s director, Hermann Kunesch, said that they considered Kruševac a town with “a favourable business environment” and that the workers in Kruševac were knowledgeable, qualified and […]
Oracle opens regional centre in Kragujevac
US-based multinational computer technology company Oracle opened a regional centre in the central Serbian town of Kragujevac from which it will provide IT cloud services to global users, the Serbian government said in a press release. During the opening ceremony, Oracle and state-owned telecommunications operator, Telekom Srbija, signed a contract under which Telekom will use […]
Germany’s Auto-Kabel to expand its factory in Serbia
German automotive parts manufacturer Auto Kabel is expanding its plant in Serbia’s western municipality of Mionica, where it plans to employ a further 300 workers, the local government said. No details about the plant’s capacity were disclosed in the statement by the local authority last week. Auto-Kabel, a manufacturer of electrical conductors for the automotive […]
Haitian International to start building its 250,000sqm factory in Ruma in autumn
The Chinese company Haitian International will start building a 250,000-square-metre production facility in the Vojvodinian town of Ruma in the autumn of this year. The production is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2025, the company announced. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 20. Phase 1 will entail the construction of 161,000 […]
Serbia is forever changed after two mass shootings – changes and challenges ahead
By Ivana Anđelković After two massacres, Serbia is not the same country anymore. We could never erase from our minds the tragic images of the crimes committed at the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Belgrade and in a village near Mladenovac in early May, but they are a forever reminder that we must do better […]
Turkiye’s election: what can we expect?
by Gaetano Massara Today Turks go to the polls to elect the President and the Parliament of the Republic born on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire defeated in the First World War. Turkey has never been more polarized than today. On the one hand, the outgoing president, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the conservative Islamist Justice […]
Anti-violence protest vs anti-people regime
(Another Serbia against Violence protest is scheduled for today at 18:00h) by Filip Švarm Editor-in-chief of Vreme magazine “What will happen today at 6 pm? Will Vučić defend Bata Gašić (Interior Minister) and Vulin (BIA director), Željko Mitrović (owner of Pink TV) and Peconi (controversial businessman) with batons and tear gas? Everything depends on the […]
Could Novak Đoković and Nikola Jokić become the best ambassadors of Serbia?
What are the first things that come to mind when foreign tourists think of Serbia? The positive things that foreigners usually associate with Serbia are most often beautiful nature, good quality and price of tourist services, friendly people, rakija, good food and world-famous athletes such as Novak Djoković, Nikola Jokić, Ivana Španović and others, according […]
Municipal elections in Northern Kosovo. Is detachment closer?
by Gaetano Massara Municipal elections were held on Sunday 23 April in Northern Kosovo, where Serbs represent 90% of the population. Kosovo has been de facto independent since 1999, when NATO intervened in defense of the Albanian majority by putting an end to Serbia’s sovereignty, to then declare de jure independence in 2008. Which not […]
New York Times: Serbian president’s ties to the criminal underworld
In a long, critically nuanced article about the ties of the criminal clan of Veljko Belivuk with the top Serbian officials, the renowned American newspaper states that there is “a gray zone between the state and the mafia”. “On a Saturday night in early March 2021, Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, appeared on live television, seated […]
What role does Serbian Orthodox Church play in violence against women?
by Ivica Dobrić As I am writing this article (Sunday, 18:00h), women in Serbia obviously had “a good time” the day before – only two were killed and one even survived an attempted murder. In all three cases, the attackers were men. Just like, after all, in dozens, if not hundreds of cases over the […]
Growth Strategies for Serbia
by Luca Gori and Nicola Pontara This article originally appeared on Lavoce.info (https://lavoce.info/archives/100852/strategie-di-crescita-per-la-serbia/). We are publishing it with the kind permission of the authors. As a crucial country for stability in the Western Balkans, Serbia has achieved significant economic success in recent years. The country has the potential to accelerate convergence with the EU and […]
The Conference of Rome, what Italy can do in the Western Balkans
by Gaetano Massara Tomorrow Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Antonio Tajani will host a conference with his homologues of the six Western Balkan nations who are not yet members of the EU (the so called WB6): Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia. The gathering is part of a process that began last November […]
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