BELGRADe - First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self Government Milan Markovic signed an agreement on community police training today.
Speaking at a joint press conference after the signing, Dacic and Markovic highlighted the importance of the role of community police in maintaining peace and order, offering help to the public and decreasing the workload of uniformed police personnel.
Dacic said that the training of the first group of ...
BELGRADE - Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration Bozidar Djelic said today that Belgrade has the potential to become a central point in Europe as it is situated at a crossroads between Danube Corridor 7 and road and rail transport Corridor 10.
Opening a workshop on the subject of cooperation between Danube river ports, water supply and wastewater treatment, Djelic said that Belgrade has two airports and a river port which must be linked to other means of transport.
CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts, USA) - A team of researchers at MIT has made significant progress on a technology that could lead to batteries with up to three times the energy density of any battery that currently exists.
Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering, says that many groups have been pursuing work on lithium-air batteries, a technology that has great potential for achieving great gains in energy density. But there has been a lack of understanding ...
BELGRADE - Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic stated today that the Fund for Environmental Protection will issue €400,000 loans to those interested in investing in businesses related to environmental protection.
Speaking at the Green Serbia conference organised by Biznis Info Group, Dulic called upon those interested to find profitable ways of investing in waste processing and recycling.
The Fund has revenues of €100 million and these funds will be available solely for investment in enviro...
BELGRADE - A group of 17 young Americans arrived in Serbia on March 21, as part of the Serbia Youth Leadership Program (SYLP).
This program is part of the support by the U.S. Government to the educational and professional exchange programs between Serbia and the United States, and is implemented by World Learning in the U.S. and Civic Initiatives in Serbia. A central event of this stay will be an ecological clean-up in Obrenovac, on March 31.
U.S. teenagers will, together with the high school students and citiz...
BELGRADE - Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration Bozidar Djelic opened the second regional economic forum "Sustainable development - legacy for the future" at Rudjer Boskovic High School today.
Djelic said that six times less funds are set aside for sustainable development in Serbia than in EU countries and that it is necessary that Serbia, together with other Balkan countries, follows in Europe’s footsteps concerning projects and finances for sustainable development.
BELGRADE - Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic said today that Serbia’s participation in the environmental conference being held in Bali will help attract further investment in the recycling industry.
In a statement to Tanjug news agency, Dulic said that he expects 10,000 more jobs to be created in Serbia’s recycling industry this year.
Opportunities are opening up for investing in the electronic and packaging waste recycling industries, said Dulic.
BUDAPEST - Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said today that investments in energy infrastructure are investments for the future development of those countries in Europe that have to catch up with advanced economies, thereby providing citizens with a higher level of stability and standard of living.
Cvetkovic said in the Summit on Energy Security in Budapest, which brought together the premieres of countries from Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe, that the region is an important energy hub and transit rout...
Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic called on magistrates and public prosecutors today to raise citizens´ awareness with their own actions of the need to respect environmental protection regulations.
Speaking at a press conference, at which a manual for judges and prosecutors who are to conduct environmental protection proceedings was presented, Dulic said that those who pollute the environment must be rigorously punished.
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos expr...
BELGRADE - Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Bozidar Djelic and Swedish Ambassador to Serbia Nils Krister Bringeus signed an agreement yesterday on Sweden’s donation to the project "Support in the implementation of the Serbian national strategy for sustainable development".
This agreement is a continuation of cooperation between Serbia and Sweden in the field of sustainable development, which has been in place since 2005, when the national strategy for sustainable development was prepared.
BRUSSELS - Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Bozidar Djelic said that Serbia today officially joined the preparation of a comprehensive EU strategy for the Danube region.
Djelic, who is on a two-day visit to Brussels, said in a statement to Tanjug news agency that in autumn Serbia will host a summit which will look into ways of financing this strategy, which will be officially presented during Hungary’s presidency over the EU, in the first half of 2011.
BELGRADE - The work of more than 150 journalists and representatives of environmental NGOs, a final result of the communication skills trainings held from September until December this year across Serbia will be presented at the Nis Media Center tomorrow.
Participants at the training courses, implemented by the EkoForum non-governmental organization and supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, were tasked with identifying environmental challenges in their own towns and writing recommendations for how to deal with th...
PANCEVO - After the latest air pollution in Pancevo, which lasted several days, an emergency meeting of the Workgroup for the monitoring of pollution in Pancevo was held. The meeting was organised by the Serbian Minister of environment and spatial planning Oliver Dulic, who said on this occasion that some of the plants at the Oil Refinery in Pancevo and "Petrohemija" had to be renovated and modernised in order not to pollute the environment and so that the pollution of 26th November would not happen again.
BELGRADE - The Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Petar Skundric said this evening that the South Eastern European regional ministerial conference, "Climate Change and Energy" has shown that there is awareness about the importance of the global issue of climate change.
Speaking at the closing of the two day conference, Skundric said that climate change can have drastic results for humanity and the planet.
One of our most important tasks is to make efforts to limit emission reduction, said Skundric.
BELGRADE - Minister of Mining and Energy Petar Skundric and Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic opened today the South Eastern European regional ministerial conference “Climate Change and Energy”.
Skundric said that the purpose of the conference is to better connect the climate policy to energy industry issues.
The Minister stressed that Serbia is ready to fulfil obligations from European directives because this is part of the country’s EU integration process, but it expects financial a...
BELGRADE, - A workshop co-organized by the OSCE Mission to support preparations by the Serbian delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December started in Belgrade today.
The workshop, organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Ministry for the Environment and Spatial Planning, focused on the negotiations to take place in Copenhagen and the implications of the conference for security and sustainable development.
"This workshop is designed to support the Serbian authorities' effo...
NOVI PAZAR - Novi Pazar, although it had the status of a city for two years, unlike the majority of cities and municipalities in Serbia, still does not have a Local environmental action plan (LEAP). There are many accumulated problems and it is hard to determine priorities: uncompleted and used garbage dump that has been burning for several months, direct inflow of fecal sewage into rivers, watercourses contaminated with solid waste and toxic wastewater, uncontrolled cutting of forests, increasing air pollution, stray dog...
BOR - With the construction of the smelter begins the solving of the biggest ecological problem at the mining and smelting complex Rudarsko Topionicarski Basen Bor. The effects of the several decades worth of pollution still remain.
The news that the citizens of Bor, one of the most polluted cities in the Balkans, had waited for decades, was finally announced.
The expert team of the world’s largest engineering firm SNC Lavalin from Canada, comprised of experts from Toronto, London and Chile, assisted by the team f...
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 count...
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