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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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