Serbia’s ties with Russia must not undermine EU bid – EU rep
Relations between Serbia and Russia should not develop in a way that undermines the Serbia’s EU integration, says the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia. According to Michael Davenport, who spoke for the Belgrade-based weekly NIN, all EU candidate countries are expected to align their foreign policy with the EU, while it is not unusual that some of member-states have “specific relations with Russia.” Speaking about...
Serbian police, army to form joint border patrols to stem illegal crossings
Serbian police and army will form joint patrols to protect the country’s borders from illegal crossings of migrants mostly coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday (July 16). Around 100,000 migrants from Middle East, Asia and Africa have passed through Serbia so far in 2016 despite the closure of the so-called “Balkan route”, which hundreds of thousands used last year to...
Serbia told not to block Kosovo, adopt EU’s Russia position
The German MEP from the CDU party, who is currently visiting Belgrade where he late on Wednesday (July 13) met with PM-designate Aleksandar Vucic, further stressed that the task of Serbia was to align its security and foreign policy with that of the EU “also when it comes to Russia.” “Serbia has traditionally strong economic, social and cultural ties with Russia. However, Russia unilaterally changes European borders...
Serbian man kills 5, injures more than 20, in cafe shooting
Five people were killed and more than 20 were wounded early on Saturday (July 2) when a man entered a cafe in northern Serbia and opened fire with a machine gun, police said. Police arrested the suspect, a man in his late 30s identified only as Z.S., immediately after the shooting in the village of Zitiste, around 80 kilometres north of Belgrade. Nebojsa Stefanovic, the interior minister, told Belgrade’s B92 TV that Z.S. killed...
Nikolic: “We’ll never join anti-Russia sanctions; EU is priority”
Serbian President said this on Friday (July 1), addressing at a graduation ceremony at the National Defense School in Belgrade. According to Nikolic, EU membership is a foreign policy priority. “The move taken by the UK, a proponent of the enlargement that is now leaving the Union, needs to be analyzed. Pursuing our own interests, we will continue to organize our country in line with the highest European standards, and let the...
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