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☆ Serbia's Vucic Nominates Ally Vucevic as Prime Minister Designate
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( March | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Saturday nominated his close ally Milos Vucevic to be prime minister and to lead a new government through a time of war in Europe and tensions with Kosovo. The nomination comes more than three months after their party, the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), won the most votes in a national election on Dec. 17. Vucevic took over leadership of the party after Vucic stepped down last year. "I propose to parliament Milos Vucevic as candidate for prime minister of Serbia," Vucic wrote on Instagram. A lawyer by profession, Vucevic was deputy prime minister and defence minister in the government of his predecessor Ana Brnabic.

Persons: Aleksandar Vucic, Milos Vucevic, Vucevic, Vucic, Ana Brnabic, Ivana Sekularac, Giles Elgood Organizations: BELGRADE, Reuters, Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, Socialists, Hungarians, European Union, EU, United Nations, Moscow Locations: Serbian, Europe, Kosovo, Serbia, Russia, China, Ukraine

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers called on Thursday for an independent investigation into allegations of vote-rigging in Serbia and demanded that EU funds be cut off if the authorities in Belgrade fail to cooperate with the inquiry or are found to be implicated in election irregularities. The governing Serbian Progressive party of populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić won the Dec. 17 parliamentary and municipal elections, securing 129 seats in the 250-seat assembly. The opposition Serbia Against Violence coalition finished a distant second with 65 seats. The resolution has angered Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić. Vučić’s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his failure to enforce EU sanctions on Moscow have dismayed many.

Persons: Aleksandar Vučić, watchdogs, “, ”, Ana Brnabić, ” Brnabić, Vladimir Putin, ___ Dusan Stojanovic Organizations: —, Union, Serbian Progressive, Serbian, Violence, Organization for Security, Cooperation, Parliamentary, of Europe, Serbia’s National Assembly Locations: BRUSSELS, Serbia, Belgrade, Europe, Strasbourg, France, Moscow

☆ Serbia joins Ukraine's Crimea platform, vows friendship with Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BELGRADE, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Serbia on Wednesday joined a Ukraine-led platform on the reintegration of Crimea, signalling a swing away from Russia, a historical ally and its sole supplier of natural gas. In an online address to the forum, Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said Serbia "sincerely regrets the suffering of Ukraine and Ukrainian people." The Crimea Platform was launched by Zelenskiy in 2021 with the aim of reintegrating the Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014. In April, leaked Pentagon documents showed Serbia had agreed to supply arms and ammunition to Kyiv, or sent them to Ukraine. Vucic said Serbia had never sold weapons or ammunition to Ukraine or Russia although Serbian arms might have reached the battlefield via third countries.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Aleksandar Vucic, Ana Brnabic, Vucic, Aleksandar Vasovic, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Wednesday, Serbian, Serbia's, Zelenskiy, NATO, European Union, United Nations, Thomson Locations: BELGRADE, Serbia, Ukraine, Crimea, Russia, Athens, Ukrainian, United States, Great Britain, Moscow, Kosovo, Belgrade, Serbian

[1/5] People attend a demonstration "Serbia against violence" organized by Serbia's opposition parties in reaction to the two mass shootings in the same week, in Belgrade, Serbia, June 17, 2023. chanted the crowd in Belgrade, referring to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, as his likeness was paraded alongside that of Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and other prominent figures in black-and-white jail garb. The protesters also demanded the resignation of Serbia's interior minister Bratislav Gasic and secret service chief Aleksandar Vulin whom they blame for failing to stop gangs. Brnabic said last week she was willing to resign and invited opposition parties, who have backed the protests, for dialogue. However, mass shootings were rare until last month.

Persons: Marko Djurica, jumpsuits, Aleksandar Vucic, Ana Brnabic, Bratislav Gasic, Aleksandar Vulin, Vladimir Savic, Vucic, Brnabic, Ivana Sekularac, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: REUTERS, Pink, Thomson Locations: Serbia, Belgrade, BELGRADE, Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac, Balkans, Yugoslavia

☆ Kosovo tensions: Why did ethnic Serbs attack NATO peacekeepers?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured after they were attacked by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, during protests over the installation of ethnically Albanian mayors. More than a decade on, these municipalities have not been created, leaving disputes over the degree of autonomy for Kosovo’s Serbs to fester. Valdrin Xhemaj/ReutersFearing potential violence, Kosovo’s central election commission changed plans to put voting booths in local schools, instead setting up mobile huts patrolled by NATO peacekeepers. Of these, more than 16,000 are ethnic Serbs – with only around 500 ethnic Albanians. The peacekeeping mission said that it had increased its presence in northern Kosovo after the newly elected ethnically Albanian mayors took office in majority Kosovo Serb areas.

Tensions have risen in the past week after ethnically Albanian mayors took office in northern Kosovo, a majority Kosovo Serb area, following April elections that Kosovo Serbs had boycotted. NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) said the recent developments prompted them to increase their presence in northern Kosovo on Monday morning, which they later said turned violent. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her sympathy for the Italian KFOR soldiers injured in the clashes, adding in a statement, “What is happening is absolutely unacceptable and irresponsible. But Serbia still considers Kosovo to be an integral part of its territory as do the Serbs living in northern Kosovo. NATO has troops stationed in Kosovo to maintain peace, with tensions often flaring between Serbia and Kosovo.

☆ Serbia's education minister resigns over school shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BELGRADE, May 7 (Reuters) - Serbia's Education Minister Branko Ruzic resigned on Sunday over last week's shooting at an elementary school in which eight children and a security guard were killed, amid public anger over that and another mass shooting just a day later. The country is in shock and mourning over the two shootings: the school massacre in the capital on Wednesday and a rampage outside the city on Thursday in which eight people died. The suspects in both cases - respectively a 13-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man - are in custody. Opposition parties, who blame Prime Minister Ana Brnabic's government for failing to prevent the two rampages, have called on supporters to join an anti-government march on Monday evening in Belgrade. Serbia has an entrenched gun culture, especially in rural areas, but its gun control laws were fairly strict even before the latest shootings.

☆ Serbian man confesses to killing eight in shooting rampage, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

In a statement seen by Reuters, the prosecutors said a man identified only as U.B. A girl shot in the head in a school shooting in Serbia in which eight pupils and a guard were killed is still in critical condition, RTS state TV reported on Saturday. Burials were being held on Saturday for four of the pupils and the guard killed in the school shooting and five young men killed in the second rampage. Following the shootings, the government introduced a set of measures aimed at preventing violence in schools and reducing the number of weapons held by civilians. The suspect in the school shooting is a 13-year-old boy who police said surrendered on Wednesday after taking two of his father's handguns to carry out the shooting.

☆ West gains advantage as it vies with Russia for influence in Serbia
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Aleksandar Vasovic | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

T-shirts with the letter Z, a symbol of Russia's campaign, are sold as souvenirs while far-right groups openly tout support for Russia. Last month, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that while Serbia had made progress in EU accession negotiations, Brussels required more. A separate CRTA poll found 61% felt Belgrade should preserve good relations with Moscow even at the cost of EU ties. U.S. and EU sanctions mean Serbia can no longer send its fighter jets or helicopters, based on ex-Soviet technology, to Russia for overhauls, nor purchase new weapons from Russia. Cedomir Stojkovic, a Belgrade-based lawyer and activist whose October Group publishes lists of prominent Serbs who are outspoken supporters of Russia, said Serbia was under Russia's "hybrid occupation".

☆ Serb nationalists pledge riots if Belgrade tries to improve ties with Kosovo
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Police block Serbian right-wing protesters who attempted to storm the New Palace, the seat of President of Serbia, during a protest against the Serbian authorities and French-German plan for the resolution of Kosovo in Belgrade, Serbia, February 15, 2023. REUTERS/Zorana JevticBELGRADE, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Hundreds of hardline Serb nationalists and pro-Russia activists rallied in downtown Belgrade, threatening riots if Serbia accepts a Western-backed plan aimed at mending ties with Kosovo, its former mainly Albanian southern province. Pro-Russian sentiment is running high in Serbia which regards Russia, a veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, as a main ally in its opposition to the 15-year-old independence of Kosovo. Protesters, carrying posters reading "Kosovo-No Surrender", cheered "Serbia-Russia" when ultranationalist Damjan Knezevic called for rioting if Belgrade seeks to improve ties with Kosovo. Knezevic admits ties with Russia's Wagner mercenary group which is fighting in Ukraine.

☆ Serbia construieşte o fabrică de vaccinuri anti-COVID pentru ca cetățenii săi „să fie pe deplin protejați”
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-31 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Brnabic a răspuns astfel unui reporter care a întrebat-o de ce are Serbia nevoie de o fabrică de vaccinuri acum şi de ce guvernul a alocat 16 milioane de euro din buget în acest scop. "Aceasta va fi o investiţie în viitor, dacă nu pentru a combate coronavirusul, atunci pentru altă luptă", a subliniat Brnabic. Un avion cu 100.620 de doze de vaccin Pfizer-Biontech donate Republicii Cehe de Serbia a decolat luni dimineaţa de pe aeroportul Nikola Tesla din Belgrad, în prezenţa premierului sârb şi a ambasadorului ceh în Serbia. Pe 20 mai, guvernul sârb a decis să doneze 100.000 de doze de vaccin Republicii Cehe, ca gest de solidaritate cu cetăţenii cehi în lupta împotriva noului tip de coronavirus. Înainte de aceasta, în timpul unei vizite oficiale la Praga, preşedintele sârb Aleksandar Vucic a oferit această donaţie premierului ceh Andrej Babis.

Persons: Ana Brnabic, . Brnabic, Nikola Tesla, Aleksandar Vucic, Andrej Babis Locations: Serbia, Europa, Serbiei, Republicii Cehe, Belgrad, Praga

☆ Cine este primul şef de guvern din Europa care se vaccinează împotriva Covid-19
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-24 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Ana Brnabic, prim-ministrul Serbiei, a devenit prima şefă de guvern european care se vaccinează împotriva coronavirusului cu serul Pfizer/BioNTech, scrie CNN. Aceasta a anunţat pe Twitter că s-a vaccinat, îndemnând populaţia să facă acelaşi lucru când vaccinul va fi disponibil. „Sunt onorată să fiu primul premier din Europa care se vaccinează. – cu pandemia)”, a scris Ana Brnabic pe Twitter, citată de Digi24. Serul Pfizer/BioNTech va ajunge şi în ţările Uniunii Europene în următoarele zile, campania de vaccinare europeană începând, în mod oficial, simultan în toate ţările UE, din 27 decembrie.

Persons: Ana Brnabic, Ana Organizations: CNN, Uniunii Europene Locations: Serbiei, Europa, .

☆ Prim-ministra Serbiei este prima șefă de guvern din Europa care se vaccinează împotriva Covid-19 cu serul Pfizer/BioNTech
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-24 | by ( Diana Severin | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

Ana Brnabic, prim-ministra Serbiei, a devenit prima șefă de guvern european care se vaccinează împotriva coronavirusului cu serul Pfizer/BioNTech, relatează CNN. Șefa guvernului de la Belgrad a anunțat pe Twitter că s-a vaccinat împotriva Covid-19 și a îndemnat populația să facă același lucru în momentul în care vaccinul va fi disponibil. Today is a big day, vaccination started! It is my duty to be the first to receive the #PfizerBioNTech vaccine against #Covid19 in 🇷🇸. I am honored to be the first PM in Europe to be vaccinated.

Persons: Ana Brnabic, CNN, ј, њ, Брнаби, Европи Locations: Serbiei, Belgrad, Брнаби

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