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Three decisions that prove that Vučić has already started election campaign
The Serbian Progressive Party rallies across the country, Vučić’s announcement of his plans to establish a nationwide movement, the Serbian Army parade scheduled for April and but also the heightened activity of the opposition parties all point to the SNS party actively starting election campaigning. As before, it’s all in one man’s hands to decide […]
Dačić: “Serbia might impose sanctions on Russia” – Russian ambassador immediately asks for a meeting
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said yesterday that Serbia is open to making the decision to impose sanctions on Russia providing the Serbian economy and citizens begin to suffer irreparable damage for the country refusing to impose sanctions. „Since the decision (of the National Security Council) is still in force, it means that that is […]
The Italy-Serbia Business Forum and the new Italian activism in the Balkans
By Gaetano Massara The Italy-Serbia Business & Science Forum was held in Belgrade last Tuesday and Wednesday with the participation of 250 Italian and 150 Serbian companies. The attendance by Italy’s Foreign Minister Mr. Antonio Tajani and Minister of Research Mrs. Anna Maria Bernini was corresponded on the Serbian side not only by that of […]
Scientific cooperation between Italy and Serbia: a long-term strategy from the Forum
The second day of the Serbia-Italy Economic and Scientific Forum was dedicated to a discussion between top scientists from the two countries. During the first panel, on the topic of ‘From Human to Technology’, the president of the CNR, Maria Chiara Carrozza, the director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Serbia, Dubravko Culibrk, the […]
24 years since NATO bombing of Serbia
On March 24, 1999, NATO began the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) over Belgrade’s policy in the province of Kosovo, which sought independence. According to unofficial sources, about 2,500 civilians and about 1,000 soldiers and police officers were killed. Infrastructure, businesses, health facilities, media houses and military facilities were severely damaged in […]
US State Department’s report on human rights in Serbia in 2022
The US State Department published the annual report on the state of human rights in the world in 2022 and dissected all the problems in Serbia that concern this area. The judiciary, violation of freedom of expression, government corruption, gender violence and violence against members of the LBGTQ community are just some of them. In […]
Viljamovka declared the 3rd best spirit in the world
The popular gastronomic website, Taste Atlas, has ranked the best alcoholic drinks in the world, with Serbian viljamovka (pear brandy) ranking 3rd, giving it a 4.4 rating out of 5. In their rationale, Taste Atlas says:” Viljamovka is a type of fruit brandy (rakija) that is distilled from Williams pear. This mellow and aromatic spirit is […]
Belgrade has no railway links with the rest of the Balkans anymore
With the temporary suspension of traffic on the international railway line Belgrade – Bar, Belgrade no longer has a single railway link with other Balkan countries, which goes hand-in-hand with the devastation of the local railway network in Serbia, says the Ne Davimo Belgrade/Green-Left Front movement. While the Serbian President boasts of investing the state […]
6th Belgrade Photography Month starts
The Sixth Belgrade Photography Month will take place from March 30 to April 27, 2023. Five independent projects by local and international photographers (Jasna Vukos, Zuzana Pustaiova, Roger Grasas, Evgeny Zaets and Alba Sera) will be presented at the exhibition in the Legacy House (Kuća Legata), as well as an exhibition of the winners of […]
Toll goes up 14%
The Serbian government has decided to increase toll for public roads by 14% for drivers who do not use the electronic toll payment device (ENP), while the increase for the drivers who use the ENP will be 8%. At the session, the government members also adopted a decree on ethical guidelines for the development, […]
Vucic:”EUR 692mln worth of FDIs made in Serbia this year so far”
“By March 20, Serbia received 692 million euros worth of foreign direct investments, which is the best result so far,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. According to him, Serbia needs to achieve a 2.5 percent GDP growth to catch up to developed countries. “I am the only one who openly says that we made a […]
Vučić: We expect four billion euros worth of foreign direct investments this year
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said at the groundbreaking ceremony marking the beginning of the construction of the VPG business park in Dobanovci, that the park will improve the overall logistics and industrial capacities of our country and increase Serbia’s competitiveness in the region, as well as additionally attract investors. On the occasion, Vučić […]
Pan-European company VGP to build a business park in Dobanovci
On 13th March, Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić, is due to attend a groundbreaking ceremony marking the beginning of construction of the VGP Park Belgrade in Dobanovci. This business park will span 1,140,000 square metres and will be built next to the M-70 and M-75 motorways and the Belgrade ring road, in close proximity to Nikola […]
Which promises did Leoni in Serbia fail to keep?
Danka Ranković, a forty-eight-year-old woman working at Leoni’s factory in Kraljevo, died on February 25 after fainting on the factory premises on February 21. Leoni workers claim that they work under great pressure and in rigorous conditions, while the factory management denies the workers’ claims. Back in 2019, the Kraljevo government donated 13 hectares of […]
Germany’s Continental opens a factory in Novi Sad
Continental Automotive Serbia, a subsidiary of the German automotive giant Continental AG, opened in Kać, near Novi Sad, a car electronic devices factory in which 140 million euros has been invested. Construction of the 30,000-square-metre production plant began in June 2021 and it will initially employ around 400 people, while Continental’s management is planning to […]
Linglong to open its Zrenjanin factory in spring
Representatives of the Chinese company Linglong have presented the plan for the opening of their tire factory in Zrenjanin at the meeting with the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić. The factory will launch its operations in the spring. As announced by the President’s cabinet, Linglong’s executives pointed out that they were satisfied with the conditions of […]
Chinese company Punai to renovate former Magnohrom factory
Chinese company Punai, which produces refractory materials, is renovating one of Magnohrom’s production facilities in Kraljevo. This factory used to produce refractory bricks and was built in the late 1980s. Following Magnohrom shutting down in the 1990s, three factories that the company owned declared bankruptcy and the company was subsequently bought by the Belgrade-based company […]
Swiss company Etampa opens a factory in Krusevac – clients include Ferrari, Porsche, Bugatti
Swiss stamping and fineblanking company Etampa officially opened a factory in Krusevac, in eastern Serbia, the Krusevac city government said. The factory will have an annual production capacity of 280 million parts for the automotive electronics (Ferrari, Porsche, Bugatti), construction and medical technology industries, the city government said in a press release on Tuesday. The […]
China’s Haitian to open a 250,000sqm production complex in Ruma
The Chinese company Haitian Machinery will build a factory complex for the production of industrial injection machines and cutting and casting machines in Ruma, Vojvodina. The complex will span 250,000 m2, and the production of a total of 250 machines a year is planned, as shown in the project’s draft, prepared by the Belgrade-based company Masinoprojekt […]
The Italy-Serbia Business Forum and the new Italian activism in the Balkans
By Gaetano Massara The Italy-Serbia Business & Science Forum was held in Belgrade last Tuesday and Wednesday with the participation of 250 Italian and 150 Serbian companies. The attendance by Italy’s Foreign Minister Mr. Antonio Tajani and Minister of Research Mrs. Anna Maria Bernini was corresponded on the Serbian side not only by that of […]
Italy-Serbia Forum: a new beginning in economic and scientific relations between the two countries?
By Biagio Carrano More than 140 Italian companies will attend the Italy-Serbia Economic and Scientific Forum to be held on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 in Belgrade. The Forum will focus on three topics – agri-tech, infrastructure and ecological transition, with the objective of a quality leap in relations between the two countries. Anyway, this goal […]
Why international law doesn’t apply to Serbia?
Double standards are a staple in the policy of superpowers that have global goals and they do not hesitate to violate legal norms when it suits their interests. The superpowers use international public law to fit their interests. If the letter of the law, which should bind all countries of the world, is not in […]
Who is afraid of Novak Djokovic?
Oops! Corriere della Sera has done it again! A little more than a year after the character assassination press campaign following the revocation of permission to compete at the Australian Open 2022, yesterday’s cover of the weekly magazine of Italy’s first daily newspaper featured the Serbian champion’s face with a rather gratifying headline: ‘Novak Djokovic […]
Lazarević: (Kosovo agreement) is not just a paper, it will affect all our lives
In last night’s political show, “Utisak Nedelje” on Nova S TV, historian and former politician Milan St. Protić said that the European proposal for the solution of the Kosovo issue was unfavourable for Serbia and added that such a detrimental agreement was a result of negotiations which, as he pointed out, were conducted in the […]
Serbia would get peace
The West has estimated that due to the war in Ukraine, which Moscow could use for wider destabilization of Europe, it was an ideal time to resolve the Serbia-Kosovo issue. Belgrade, like Pristina, was offered a new platform for dialogue, which was immediately criticized by the zealots and other critics alike, asking why Serbia would […]
Exclusive interview with Ambassador Gori: “Renewing Italy’s presence and commitment in Serbia
In recent years, Serbia, especially its capital Belgrade, has changed profoundly: massive investments in construction and the related boom in the real estate market, the growth of new businesses based on digital and innovative technologies, and last but not least, the arrival of more than 100,000 Russian citizens following the aggression against Ukraine, are among […]
Can Serbia survive EU’s economic ultimatum?
(I am writing this article in English although my main audience is in Serbia. But I am doing it also because very few people in the world, preoccupied by other world crises, such as the war in Ukraine, US-China issues, Covid and the like, know what is happening in the Balkans and what is the […]
Stojanovic:”Vucic thinks he’s Tito, that this is Yugoslavia and that we’re in a cold war”
In assessing the personality of the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić, historian Dubravka Stojanović says that Vučić has a grandiose image of himself and that many problems stem from the way he perceives himself. As Stojanović told N1, the big problem lies in the fact that Vučić is really trying to solve things by pretending that […]
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