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Serbia reaffirms EU commitment as accession talks stall over foreign policy
Serbia remains committed to joining the European Union, President Aleksandar Vucic said on October 6, as officials in Belgrade acknowledged that accession talks have slowed amid pressure on the country to align with EU foreign policy. Serbia, a...

Business News | New Strategic Partnership: ChemVolt and ElevenEs to Accelerate India's BESS and EV Ecosystem
BusinessWire India Gurugram (Haryana) [India]/ Subotica [Serbia], October 7: ChemVolt Global, a leading Indian clean energy and storage solutions company, and ElevenEs, Europe's foremost lithium-ion cell technology and manufacturing company, today...

First session of Serbia's National Assembly autumn sitting: MPs' questions underway PHOTO/VIDEO
The first item on the agenda is the consideration of the Draft Law on Special Conditions for Recording and Registering Property Rights on Real Estate. The agenda also includes amendments to the Law on Enforcement and Security, as well as...

World Bank: Serbia’s economic growth this year at 2.8%
Serbia’s economy is expected to grow by 2.8% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank estimate. After a strong performance in 2024, the economy has lost momentum due to lower private investment and net foreign direct investment inflows amid...

Total remaining debt of Serbia inherited from former Yugoslavia EUR 815.86 million
The total remaining debt of Serbia as per the obligations taken over from the former Yugoslavia at the end of September this year amounted to EUR 815.86 million, according to the data of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS). As announced by the...

Zaha Hadid Architects wins Belgrade tower competition
The London-based architect defeated an undisclosed shortlist to win the commission to design the new 35-storey Alta Tower development. The tower will provide a mix of office, housing, public realm and retail space, which the architects say is...

New Belgrade to get new tower – Alta Tower skyscraper to have 34 floors
The architectural studio Zaha Hadid Architects from London and the Belgrade-based architectural studio Bureau Cube Partners are to design the new Alta Tower in New Belgrade. They have been selected by Alta Bank for a project that unifies the...
Large Number of Instances of Political Violence Recorded in Serbia
Source: Beta News / Politics | 07.10.25 | access_time 12:29 Protest rally in Novi Sad (BetaPhoto/Katarina Redzic) Political violence monitoring, performed by citizens’ association Kareja Corruption Research Institute in September, recorded 97...

Kurti urges EU sanctions over Serbia
PRISTINA, Oct. 7 (TemA) — Kosovo’s caretaker prime minister Albin Kurti accused Serbia of interfering in the Oct. 12 local elections by promising jobs and financial benefits to voters, and urged the European Union to impose sanctions. Kurti said...

Toyo Tires strengthens Serbian ties during presidential visit
During his official visit to Japan, Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić met with Toyo Tires management, as reported by our sister site PneusNews. He shared a message on Instagram highlighting the strengthening of cooperation between the Japanese...
New Democratic Party of Serbia: Student Ticket Can’t Defeat the Regime as They Can’t Say They Are against Serbia’s EU Membership
Source: Beta News / Politics | 07.10.25 | access_time 12:50 Milos Jovanovic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC) The student ticket cannot defeat the regime even in a referendum-like atmosphere, because they cannot provide answers to some crucial national...

NBS: Serbia’s remaining debt inherited from the SFRY totals 815.86 million euros
Serbia’s total remaining debt from obligations inherited from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) amounted to 815.86 million euros at the end of September this year, according to data from the National Bank of Serbia (NBS)....

zaha hadid architects plans rippling ‘alta tower’ for belgrade, serbia
A New Landmark for New Belgrade Zaha Hadid Architects unveils its Alta Tower for Belgrade, Serbia, a new mixed-use development designed in collaboration with Bureau Cube Partners for Alta Bank. The proposal, which won an international competition,...

World Bank sees better growth for Western Balkans but more work needed on jobs
SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Economic growth for six Western Balkans countries is projected to slightly increase in 2026 on stronger exports and investment after a slowdown this year, the World Bank said on Tuesday. Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro,...

Beyond Decision Superiority: The Role of Intelligence in Innovation & Adaptation
Wars are not won by speed and better decisions. They are won when weapons find their targets and destroy them. Yet in the race to build faster, cheaper, and smarter systems, the Pentagon risks forgetting the key source of that reliability: hard,...

How did we reach the point where one wishes the worst upon a political opponent?
There was once a philosopher named Thomas Hobbes. This Englishman, in the mid-seventeenth century, published a treatise he titled “Leviathan.” Professors in social sciences usually make their students read it. Put as simply and superficially as...

Opinion – International Recognition of Palestine and the Risk of a West Bank “Frontier”
In September 2025 alone, ten states – including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Portugal, and the United Kingdom – recognized the State of Palestine. As of September 25, 157 countries have extended such recognition, including four of the five...
Serbian Parliamentary Committee Supports Amendments to Special Legislation on EXPO
Source: Beta News / Politics | 06.10.25 | access_time 20:50 EXPO 2027 (BETAPHOTO/MILAN ILIC) The Serbian parliament's Committee on Finance, the National Budget and Public Spending Oversight on Oct. 6 accepted amendments to the Law on special...

Former Arizona AG Mark Brnovich withdrawn from Serbian ambassador nomination
Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is not going to be the next ambassador to Serbia. The White House late last week sent a message to the Senate that it was withdrawing Brnovich's nomination. No reason was given for the announcement....