Belgrade News

Pharmaceutical company Jugohemija will today receive the first 140,000 doses of the Novartis swine flu vaccines from the Swiss company's plant in Siena, Italy. The vaccines will be transported by special refrigerator trucks to the Torlak Institute in Belgrade, Jugohemija...

State Secretary in the German Foreign Minister Werner Hoyer said that the climate must be created for making it easier for Belgrade to solve the Kosovo problem. As far as Kosovo is concerned, I do not see a solution yet,...

President Boris Tadi� said that Serbia has two central goals currently�preserving its territorial integrity and sovereignty and joining the European Union. �We are entering Europe with our identity and we will not back away from that,� Tadi� said.

The government has agreed to fulfill a majority of the demands of students that have been protesting in Belgrade over the last several days. However, a group of students that are still not content with the agreement has announced that...

Serbian police (MUP) have four persons under arrest today on suspicion that they stole RSD 65mn from the Share Fund and small shareholders. The fraud case relates to the privatization of Betonjerka AD company from Sombor, northern Serbia. Those arrested...

Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovi� says Serbia will invest more than EUR 5bn in developing its road, railway and energy infrastructure by 2012. This would increase the country's economic activity significantly, said the premier, and announced that the budget deficit would...

SSerbian MP in parliament shoe-throwing incident Parliament in Serbia has been interrupted after a Radical Party MP threw her shoes at the deputy speaker. Members of the chamber were discussing a new bill giving wide-ranging autonomy to a northern region...

The New Belgrade police station assistant commander died last night from the injuries sustained in a traffic accident. Emergency Center spokeswoman Nada Macura was quoted as saying this morning that a man was treated near Jakovo and then taken to...

President Boris Tadi� has reportedly ordered state officials not to come up with public prognosis "that would irritate the Netherlands". Belgrade daily Danas writes that Tadi�'s "strict orders" concern all those officials directly or indirectly involved in EU integrations.

President of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Dragoljub Mi�unovi� stated that Serbia and China were on the same side in observing international law. Serbia and People�s Republic of China were developing very quickly based on long friendship and political, economic...