BELGRADE - Around 40 representatives of Serbian ministries, the judiciary and leading media outlets are participating in a debate that started today on the implementation of the amended Law on Public Information, which was adopted last summer.
The two-day event, organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and USAID's implementing partner IREX, aims to resolve new difficulties confronting the media and the judiciary in light of the amended Law on Public Information. The new provisions empower authorities to close media o...
BELGRADE - Deputy PM in charge of EU integration Bozidar Djelic on Wednesday in Belgrade promoted a book which reports said he "conceived".
Djelic - who is also minister of science in the Cvetkovic cabinet - presented the book, entitled, "Sustainable Development - Our Common Future" to the vistors and reporters at the 54th International Book Fair.
He said that at the international level, Serbia was complimented for its efforts regarding sustainable development, adding that the intensive promotion of the coun...
BELGRADE - Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration Bozidar Djelic today stated that the USAID will approve an additional $4.3 million of non-repayable aid for the development of the civil society in Serbia.
At a press conference held at the government building Djelic said that the USA is Serbia’s second largest donor of non-repayable fuds, recalling that since 2001 it has granted over €500 million towards improving Serbia’s administration, the energy system and for other needs of the Serbian citizens and its economy...
SREMSKA MITROVICA - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic and President of the Industricum Company Jan Driessens today signed an agreement on the sale of the bankrupt public company Matroz and a €75 million investment for the construction of a new aluminium recycling factory.
The factory will immediately employ 250 new workers, while another 2,500 will be indirectly engaged in accompanying activities.
This Industricum Company project will be the third such fact...
BELGRADE - Some 20 environmental civil society representatives from northern Serbia are taking part in a communication skills training course that ends tomorrow in Subotica and was offered as part of a project supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia.
The project, Green Info Network, implemented by the Belgrade non-governmental organization Eko Forum, aims to strengthen the capacity of environmental NGOs to communicate better with the media and the general public, and to establish a mechanism for more efficient exch...
BELGRADE - In a series of five seminars conducted by the OSCE Mission to Serbia across the country this year, Serbian misdemeanour judges and environmental inspectors received training in implementing a set of 16 new environmental laws adopted by the Government in May. The training seminars followed up on the success of similar courses the Mission offered last year in response to the country's ongoing reform of its environmental legislation.
One of the most significant new laws is the ratification of the Aarhus Co...
NOVI SAD - Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Milan Markovic announced in Novi Sad that community police will start working across Serbia as of spring 2010.
Speaking at a promotion “Community Police - Providing Order in Serbian Cities”, the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government said that community police will help local authorities implement their decisions more easily.
He said that community police will be the first people that citizens should address in case...
NEW YORK - Serbian Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic stated last night that participants in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was held yesterday as part of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, agreed that the Kyoto Protocol should be replaced with a new agreement on climate changes, to be adopted late this year in Copenhagen.
Dulic, who is attending the UN General Assembly in his capacity as the chairman of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing C...
BELGRADE - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic today opened the international symposium ‘Climate Changes on the Eve of the Second Decade of the Century’, dedicated to the celebration of the 130th anniversary of Milutin Milankovic’s birth.
Opening the symposium at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) Djelic said that Milankovic showed that Serbia can produce ingenious minds and that good results can be achieved by joining individual talents to good s...
BELGRADE - The first in the series of workshops for environmental non-government organizations from Serbia, designed to enhance their public relation skills, will be held in Subotica on 26th September, as part of the project "Green Info Network".
The project "Green Info Network", launched on 5th August 2009, is funded by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and implemented by the association EkoForum from Belgrade.
The project aims to enhance environmental NGOs' activities public visibility, with the goal to include them ...
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