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Economist: No Price Can Be Set for NIS’s Nationalization, Recompense Only in Court
Source: Beta News / Politics | 30.10.25 | access_time 13:06 Oil and gas company NIS (BETAPHOTO/EMIL VAS) Should the Serbian state decide to nationalize oil and gas multinational Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) – a solution hinted at by the U.S.,...
Trump cites China, Pakistan to justify revival of US nuclear tests
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Pakistan and China are among countries testing nuclear weapons, as he justified plans to resume US nuclear testing after more than three decades. | Photo Credit: ELIZABETH FRANTZ/Reuters Pakistan and...
Belgrade University Students Begin March to Novi Sad
Source: Beta News / Politics | 30.10.25 | access_time 13:18 Student's protest BETAPHOTO/Uros Matovic Early on Oct. 30, several thousand university students, highschoolers and other members of the general public began a 70-kilometer march to Novi...
Serbia eyes last quarter of 2027 for power market coupling with EU – SEEPEX CEO
Miloš Mladenović was one of the speakers at the Energy Connectivity, Resilience and Security in Southeastern Europe panel at the 14th International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development in Skopje. He recalled that a few weeks ago, the...
Business as usual: Jokic posts fourth straight triple-double as Nuggets rout Pelicans
Nikola Jokic bagged his fourth straight triple-double to start the NBA season on Wednesday to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 122-88 rout of the New Orleans Pelicans. Serbian star Jokic, a three-time NBA Most Valuable Player, joined Oscar Robertson...
The streets against the regime in Serbia: one year of mobilization in review
Throughout the last year, Serbian students have been taking to the streets. They have succeeded in organizing the largest protest movement since the fall of Slobodan Milošević in 2000. They accuse Aleksandar Vučić’s authoritarian and corrupt...
Serbia’s EU bid: Necessity-driven joint ambition facing foreign policy hurdles
Serbia’s journey toward the European Union began in January 2001, when pro-European parties won parliamentary elections following the fall of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000. At the time, some observers even speculated that the Federal Republic...
Politico: Inside Paul Manafort’s comeback – his failed attempt to rehabilitate Berisha in Washington
Brescia, Italy, is not the most obvious place for a disgraced American politico to make a triumphant return. But when Paul Manafort appeared at a political event there in April — less than five years after his convictions on financial and lobbying...
A year after Serbia's Novi Sad disaster: 'It is no longer the country it was before 1 November last year'
One year ago, on 1 November 2024, the canopy of the train station in the Serbian town of Novi Sad collapsed, killing 16 people. The Novi Sad train station was renovated shortly before the collapse in 2024 — by a Chinese company. Citizens soon...
Student and journalist Božidar Milovac: “The future of Serbian media depends on the outcome of the protests”
In the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the Novi Sad railway canopy collapse, which killed 16 people on 1 November 2024, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) spoke with Božidar Milovac, a Serbian student and journalist from Novi Sad....
Molins deliver third quarter 2025 financial results
Molins reports growth in sales and EBITDA in the third quarter. On a cumulative basis, Molins achieves solid results with increases at constant exchange rates across all regions. Molins has announced the financial results for the first nine months...
Ministry of Finance planning to upgrade eInvoice system for receiving and sending cross-border invoices via PEPPOL network – Procurement value around EUR 3 million
The Ministry of Finance has announced a public procurement procedure for the upgrade of the eInvoice system for the purposes of integration with the Peppol network. As explained in the documentation, the Ministry of Finance, as the competent state...
The path to harm: A sequence of human rights violations precedes mass atrocities
The road to genocide doesn’t begin with bullets and mass graves, but with more subtle violations. Declining workers’ rights or compromises on the right to a fair trial may come first. Brutality by law enforcement and prison guards becomes...
EU ambassadors, including Bulgaria's ambassador to Serbia: Right to protest and free media, without violence
Respect for fundamental rights and values, including freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of the media, are key values of the EU that everyone must defend and support. We call on everyone to act with restraint, calm tensions, and avoid...
Thousands march in Serbia to mark deadly train station collapse a year ago
Thousands of Serbian youth are marching across the country before a mass rally in the northern town of Novi Sad, marking the first anniversary of a train station collapse that prompted the country’s biggest antigovernment protest movement in...
After a year of street protests, Serbia’s students split on what should come next
Midway through a 16-day, 250-mile (400km) march from Novi Pazar to Novi Sad, Inas Hodžić was still remarkably energetic. Like thousands of other Serbian students, he was making his way to the city which, last autumn, become the scene of national...
Serbia protests demand accountability one year after deadly roof collapse
By Ivana Sekularac BELGRADE (Reuters) -Dijana Hrka, 48, whose son was among 16 people killed when the roof of a renovated railway station in Serbia collapsed, is angry with authorities for having held no one accountable a year later. “The roof...
Serbian diaspora rallies worldwide to mark November 1 anniversary
The gatherings will be held in public squares or in front of Serbian embassies and consulates, with most starting at 11:30 a.m. so that participants can pay tribute to the victims with 16 minutes of silence at 11:52, the exact time the canopy...
The role of the right wing in student protests in Serbia
Neither left, nor right, nor civic, nor nationalist. Despite the student movement’s position of not taking sides on issues that could polarise Serbian society, a year of mass anti-government protests has been marked by right-wing and nationalist...
The most critical European Commission report on Serbia to date
After the European Parliament adopted a resolution containing the most negative assessments of reforms in Serbia so far, Belgrade is set to face even harsher criticism from Brussels. On 4 November, the European Commission will publish enlargement...