Eleven years after embracing capitalism, Belgrade has cancelled almost 30 per cent of all privatisation deals because of corruption or mismanagement. Yet the system remains open to abuse.
Serbia and Turkey have signed a bilateral economic free trade agreement at the annual economic summit in Istanbul, which will take effect on January 1, 2010.
The Albanian government has come under harsh criticism from the opposition after an EU progress report said Tirana is not as close to fulfilling requirements needed to liberalise the visa regime as some of its neighbours are.
erbia’s Culture Ministry is to form two working groups which will propose urgent measures in order to help Serbian media which is in crisis because of dwindling revenues hit by an economic downturn.
The Serbian Government is to back salary cuts for forty percent of all public administration personnel on Thursday, says Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic.
United States policy in the Balkans will not change with Barack Obama as US president, and Serbia cannot hope for any shift in Washington’s stance over Kosovo, a veteran Serbian diplomat said.
Kosovo’s ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica could face bloody conflict if inter-ethnic tensions continue unchecked, a local Serb politician says.
Pristina _Kosovar Minister of Economy Lutfi Zharku has threatened to impose a blockade on Serbian goods if Belgrade does not recognize Pristina’s customs authorities, reports the daily Express.
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