Beta Briefing

Home
Serbia
Belgrade
Beta Briefing

Beta Briefing is website owned and operated by the News Agency BETA PRESS Ltd.

09/09/2024

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin met with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu in Moscow on Sept. 9.

Vulin,

09/09/2024

"Vucic's stroll across western Serbia and his promises to everyone’s wishes – build or pave a road, install a water or electricity grid - is just one of his many antics to divert attention from the problems in Kosovo," Kokanovic said for BETA.

Kokanovic:

09/09/2024

"We will continue to carry out joint projects with our Chinese friends, learning more about methods to improve security on high-speed railways and actively cooperate in combating transnational crime," Dacic stated.

Dacic:

09/09/2024

Zrenjanin’s Assistant Mayor Vera Milosev, who insulted a boy with special needs at a local theatre, has handed in her resignation, the city’s Mayor Simo Salapura announced on Sept. 9.

Official

09/09/2024

Pajtic claimed that Vucic has so far delivered on all the desires of foreign politicians: from promising to mine lithium, through committing to build nuclear power plants, to purchasing French Dassault Rafale fighter jets.

Opposition

09/09/2024

Belgrade's Pride March, the main event of Pride Week, took place without any incidents on Sept. 7 under a strong police presence and was attended by several Serbian ministers, though none from the two leading parties -- the Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Pride

09/09/2024

Kosovo Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla said on Sept. 7 that the Brnjak and Merdare administrative crossings, which closed during the night of Sept. 6 and 7, had opened.

Merdare,

09/09/2024

Representatives of Rio Tinto said during a town meeting in Ljubovija, where Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with locals on Sept. 7, that they put the safety of all people working in their mines and living near them first, so that the water, soil and natural environment remained safe.

Rio

09/09/2024

Miroslav Lajcak , said in Pristina, on Sept. 6, that Serbia had withdrawn last year’s letter to the European Union (EU), voicing reservations regarding the Agreement on the Path to the Normalization of Relations between Serbia and Kosovo, and its Implementation Annex.

Lajcak

06/09/2024

Vucic said on Sept. 6 that he did not voice a decision on attending the upcoming BRICS summit in Russia – to which he was invited by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin – reiterating that he would decide on the matter in October.

Vucic:

06/09/2024

Speaking for BETA, Rojevic said that the blockade will be staged by patriotic associations of citizens from Kosovo and involve three crossings between Kosovo and Serbia, and one with Montenegro.

Protestors

05/09/2024

Vucic said he “feared” that Rio Tinto wanted to invest as little as possible into environment protection in order to have more profits, but that he would not allow it.

Vucic:

05/09/2024

"The Kosovo Serbs are almost in the same position as we Albanians were in the 1990s when Milosevic imposed an apartheid system, only Serbian police and paramilitary groups were on the ground and we were protected by foreign diplomatic missions," Maliqi said.

Kosovo

05/09/2024

He stressed that the funds were intended only for local and regional roads.

Vucic:

05/09/2024

Speaking for K1 TV, Vucevic added that the situation in Kosovo is “quite grave” and that Serbia can choose between “entering into a conflict or fighting using political and diplomatic means.”

PM:

05/09/2024

During his Sept. 4 meeting in Vladivostok with Serbia’s Deputy Parliament Speaker Aleksandar Vulin, Putin stated that Moscow “is awaiting President Vucic at events related to the meetings of BRICS group leaders.”

Vucic

04/09/2024

The minister of foreign affairs and the diaspora of Kosovo, Donika Gervalla, announced on Sept. 4 that the Kosovo government would “continue to open bridges” which, in her words should be uniting people and cities.

Kosovo

04/09/2024

The chief of the EU Delegation in Serbia, Emanuele Giaufret, stated on Sept. 4 that Serbia would receive around a billion and a half from the growth plan, of the total of six billion euros designated for all countries of the Western Balkans.

Giaufret:

04/09/2024

In an interview with BETA, Mirovic said that the party, choosing between the interests of the Serbian people and Aleskandar Vucic’s personal interests, “decided to be an instrument of Vucic’s unconstitutional and illegal politics.”

University

03/09/2024

Gasic on Sept. 3 denied certain media reports that a new contract on the procurement of French fighter aircraft Rafale also contained a provision for Serbia to hand its Russia-made fighter jets MiG-29 to France, which would then be transferred to Ukraine.

Defense

03/09/2024

After touring a new gym in a renovated local elementary school, Vucevic said that the state had been building “a lot” in Novi Pazar demonstrating that the city had not been left behind. According to him, the most important project is a hospital center in the city.

Every

03/09/2024

Momcilo Trajkovic, the president of the Serbian National Forum with head office in Gracanica, near Pristina, on Sept. 3 said that a delegation of the Serbs living in Kosovo and Metohija was extremely happy with talks with members of the opposition ProgGlas initiative, describing the meeting as “much more than they had expected.”

Kosovo

03/09/2024

Environmental association Eko Straza (Eco Watch) on Sept. 2 said that discontinuation of the regime’s practice of arresting activists involved in protests against lithium mining in Serbia was not enough, announcing several concrete steps to be taken in the next two weeks.

Environmental

02/09/2024

Speaking at the Forum in Slovenia, she said that the new generations of the Western Balkan region had "chosen to be part of a common, European family" and that it was up to the EU to make this possible.

Von

02/09/2024

Vucevic noted that Serbia had no issue with seeing Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova on the path to the EU, but that it was not fair to Western Balkan states to be pushed aside.

Vucevic

02/09/2024

President Vucic also denied reports that during last week’s visit to Belgrade by French President Emmanuel Macron he had discussed with him the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina or the opening of talks on a possibility to reduce the influence of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia.

Vucic:

02/09/2024

Sept. 2 marked the beginning of this year’s pride week in Serbia, which opened in Belgrade under the motto ‘Pride Are People.’

Serbia’s

02/09/2024

On Sept. 1, a rally staged by the Eko Straza (Eco-Watch) environmental protection organization took place in front of the RTS public service in support of the detained activists fighting against lithium mining in Serbia.

Environmentalist

02/09/2024

Miroslav Lajcak, the European Union's special representative for the Western Balkans, denied on Aug. 31 a statement by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic that Serbia could not become a member of the 27-nation bloc before 2028.

Lajcak

30/08/2024

On Aug. 30, on occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Novi Sad’s Center for Missing and Exploited Children requested that the Serbian authorities create an official public registry of missing persons.

Center

Address

Decanska Str. 8, 3rd Floor
Belgrade
11000

Website

http://www.betabriefing.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Beta Briefing posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.