Candidacy in jeopardy unless dialogue resumes
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 13:20 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send commentBRUSSELS -- Serbia will not become a candidate for EU membership if Belgrade fails to, by the end of next week, reach an agreement with Priština on Kosovo's representation.
Referendum "will damage Serbia politically"
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:40 | Source: Tanjug, Press | Comments: (6) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Goran Bogdanović has said that holding a referendum in Kosovo's north might not be a huge economic damage, but would cost Serbia dearly in political terms.
"Next govt. should declare political neutrality"
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:42 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (3) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Vojislav Koštunica has voiced his opinion that following elections - expected this spring - a new government should declare political and military neutrality.
Parliament committee on Kosovo to convene
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:00 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Chairman of the Serbian Parliament's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija Ljubomir Kragović has scheduled a session of this body for Tuesday.
Icicles, snow kill woman in Belgrade
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:58 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (0) | Send commentBELGRADE -- A woman died today after icicles formed on the roof of a building in Belgrade fell on her, police sources have confirmed.
Big freeze continues, ice forms on large rivers
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:38 | Source: B92 | Comments: (1) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Serbia went through another extremely cold night, to wake up to morning temperatures ranging from minus 15 to minus eight degrees centigrade.
Đoković named Laureus World Sportsman of Year
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 11:45 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send commentLONDON -- Serbian tennis player and World No. 1 Novak Đoković has been named Sportsman of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in London.
Zemun Clan members attempt escape
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 09:23 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Two former members of the Zemun Clan criminal group last night attempted to escape their detention union in Belgrade, local media are reporting.
IMF, Serbian government launch talks
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 09:26 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Serbian officials met in Belgrade on Monday with a visiting IMF mission and opened talks on the first review of the current precautionary stand-by arrangement.
"2012 inflation within planned framework"
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:08 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send commentBELGRADE -- The 2012 inflation will be within the planned framework of 5.5 to 6 percent", considering the indicators at the end of 2011, says IZIT's Saša Đogović.
Councilors wish to name street after terrorist
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 10:04 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (12) | Send commentBUJANOVAC -- Councilors from ethnic Albanian parties in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, have adopted a proposal to change the names of several local streets.
Another train derails in region due to snow
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 15:11 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send commentZAGREB -- A train that was traveling on the Split-Zagreb line in Croatia on Tuesday derailed near the town of Knin, said reports.
Russian foreign minister visits Syria
Tuesday 7.02.2012 | 09:47 | Source: euronews, RIA Novosti | Comments: (0) | Send commentMOSCOW -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is on Tuesday visiting Syria amid ongoing clashes in that Middle Eastern country.
Yesterday's news Monday, 6 February 2012
State of emergency in Serbia due to cold weather
Monday 6.02.2012 | 15:23 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send commentBELGRADE -- The Serbian government declared on Sunday evening a state of emergency on the entire territory due to heavy snowfall and very low temperatures.
Russian envoy receives top Church honor
Monday 6.02.2012 | 17:15 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (21) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin has received the highest honor given by the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC).
"Date for continuation of Kosovo talks soon"
Monday 6.02.2012 | 11:38 | Source: B92 | Comments: (4) | Send commentBELGRADE -- The Belgrade-Priština negotiations will continue this month, while a date will be announced very soon, Belgrade negotiator Borislav Stefanović told B92.
"Serbia can do enough" by March deadline
Monday 6.02.2012 | 09:45 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (1) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Serbia can do enough for the member states to acknowledge that it has made progress in comparison to the situation in December, says a government official.
PM: Govt. and IMF agree on key issues
Monday 6.02.2012 | 10:14 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Mirko Cvetković says there are no significant differences between his cabinet and the IMF regarding the implementation of a precautionary stand-by arrangement.
Doctors arrested for taking bribes
Monday 6.02.2012 | 18:19 | Source: Beta | Comments: (1) | Send commentBELGRADE -- The Serbian police on Monday arrested four doctors of the General Hospital in Užice, western Serbia, on suspicion that they solicited and received bribes.
13th anniversary of Rambouillet conference
Monday 6.02.2012 | 12:00 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (15) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Today marks 13 years since the start of the unsuccessful international conference dedicated to the Kosovo crisis held in Chateau Rambouillet near Paris.
Serbia marks Safer Internet Day
Monday 6.02.2012 | 10:06 | Source: B92 | Comments: (1) | Send commentBELGRADE -- The B92 Fund has teamed up with several organizations to mark Safer Internet Day on Tuesday in Serbia.
Belgrade-Istanbul train derails; no casualties
Monday 6.02.2012 | 13:43 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send commentBULGARIA -- A passenger train traveling on the Belgrade-Instanbul line derailed early on Monday in southern Bulgaria, when the engine hit a landslide.
Region struggles with cold wave
Monday 6.02.2012 | 15:20 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send commentBELGRADE -- Snow and very low temperatures have continued to cause trouble in the entire Western Balkans region.
UN chief to present Kosovo report on Wednesday
Monday 6.02.2012 | 18:05 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send commentNEW YORK -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will present Wednesday his regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija.
Ex-Slovenian FM to take over as EUSR
Monday 6.02.2012 | 15:07 | Source: Tanjug, STA | Comments: (0) | Send commentLJUBLJANA -- Former Slovenian foreign minister Samuel Žbogar will assume the office of the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) in Kosovo on Monday.
Thaci "only wants to discuss recognition"
Monday 6.02.2012 | 15:01 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (23) | Send commentPRIŠTINA -- Hashim Thaci once again on Monday spoke about "his willingness to meet with Serbian President Boris Tadić".
Romanian PM resigns "to defuse tension"
Monday 6.02.2012 | 11:34 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send commentBUCHAREST -- The Romanian government on Monday submitted its collective resignation "in order to protect the country's stability", PM Emil Boc has announced.
Clinton to Bulgarians: Get rid of Russia
Monday 6.02.2012 | 09:56 | Source: Beta | Comments: (30) | Send commentSOFIA -- U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will ask Bulgarian officials to end their country's energy dependency on Russia, according to reports.
Israel considers response to Iran threat
Monday 6.02.2012 | 10:31 | Source: VOA, NBC | Comments: (9) | Send commentJERUSALEM, WASHINGTON -- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the only way to ensure Israel’s survival in the region was to continue to develop the nation’s military might.
Opinions & Analyses
Germany's role in Europe and European debt crisis
1.02.2012. | Comments: 4
"Germany must have a free-trade zone in Europe. Germany also needs robust demand in Europe. Germany also wants prudence in borrowing practices. And Germany must not see a return to the anti-German feeling of previous epochs."
B92 TV
KFOR spokesman: Institutions in north "not parallel"
22.12.2011. | Comments: 3
A spokesman for the NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, says that this international mission "does not think there are parallel and illegal institutions in northern (Serb-dominated) Kosovo".
Reports
Balkans in HRW's annual World Report
23.01.2012. | Comments: 0
The Human Rights Watch international NGO has published its 22nd annual World Report, summarizing human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011.