Serbia

My Europe Series

Why are so many Serbian doctors dying of COVID-19?

Serbia’s total death toll from coronavirus is relatively low, around 3,600, but its rate of fatalities in the medical profession is far higher than in other nations.

13/01/2021

Serbia

Extreme weather batters the Balkans with snow, floods and ice

In central Croatia, which was hit by a major earthquake on December 29, people cannot stay in their damaged homes and have been sleeping in containers.

12/01/2021

My Europe Series

Is Serbia manipulating data to cover up its air pollution problem?

A key official claims he was fired from Serbia's environment protection agency because he objected to changing the thresholds for what is considered pollution.

07/01/2021

My Europe Series

Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic bet big on Donald Trump and lost. Now what?

Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic had a friend in President Donald Trump. With Joe Biden, life may not be so easy.

24/11/2020

Serbia

Euroviews. Belgrade's Biden conundrum: How US-Serbian relations will shape up post-Trump ǀ View

Serbia's president Aleksandar Vučić had hoped for a Trump victory in the US presidential election. The elevation of Joe Biden to the presidency poses many challenges for him, both domestically and internationally.

23/11/2020

Serbia

Thousands mourn Serbia's Patriarch after COVID-19 death

Serbia is currently facing the worst health crisis since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

22/11/2020

Serbia

Serbian Orthodox Church leader dies from COVID-19, aged 90

Patriarch Irinej was taken to hospital earlier in November after going to the funeral of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, Bishop Amfilohije.

20/11/2020

Serbia

Serbian police arrest two people after seven bodies found in Paraguay

Serbian police have arrested two people for migrant smuggling in connection with the recent discovery of seven bodies in a shipping container in Paraguay.

29/10/2020

My Europe Series

How Serbia's addiction to coal could cloud its future in Europe

When much of Europe is turning against coal, Serbia is continuing to open new mines, often financed and built by China.

21/10/2020

Serbia

Serbia has rolled out the red carpet to China - but at what cost?

Serbs living close to a Chinese-owned plant complain about sky-rocketing pollution. Activists say their concerns have fallen on deaf ears in Belgrade.

08/10/2020

My Europe Series

Will the €4bn Belgrade-Budapest rail upgrade be a benefit or burden?

Without effective rail connections from Belgrade to Greece, “this railway will go from nowhere to nowhere,” says Laszlo Varju, an MP for the centre-left Democratic Coalition party.

06/10/2020

My Europe Series

Serbia’s Muslim enclave fears new ethnic violence

Residents of Muslim-majority Sandzak say that Belgrade has never recognised its responsibility for the violence of the 1990s.

21/09/2020

Serbia

Serbia's Vucic non-committal on Trump’s Jerusalem embassy comment

President Aleksander Vucic appeared somewhat taken aback when the US President declared that Serbia had agreed to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.

07/09/2020

Serbia

Serbia villagers rip out hydropower pipes

Villagers in Serbia ripped out hydropower pipes, claiming a new generating plant will wreck the river on which many livelihoods depend.

16/08/2020

Serbia

Serbia launches investigation into finances of rights groups

A government official told the state news agency that non-government groups should not be treated as “holy cows.”

28/07/2020

Serbia

'Health disaster': Doctors hit out over Serbia's coronavirus spike

"The total abandonment of measures to fight the epidemic in the pre-election period caused the loss of control of the epidemiological situation," doctors said in an open letter.

21/07/2020

Serbia

Serbia denies hiding COVID-19 impact to push ahead with election

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) found Belgrade underreported COVID-19 deaths by nearly 400 between March 19 and June 1.

17/07/2020

Serbia

EU 'back in the driver's seat' as Serbia-Kosovo talks resume

Serbia-Kosovo deal: Can Brussels succeed where the White House failed?

17/07/2020

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Wild West theme park opens in rural Serbia

The quiet mountain village of Vodice, in the centre of the country, is now home to El Paso City.

15/07/2020

Serbia

Serbia and Kosovo's leaders agree to meet in person for Brussels talks

European Union officials praise the two sides, but neither appeared to shift their position on Serbian recognition of Kosovo

13/07/2020

Serbia

Fifth night of anti-Vučić protests in Belgrade but no trouble reported

The protests first started when Serbia's populist president announced a strict curfew for this weekend to curb a surge in new coronavirus cases.

12/07/2020

Serbia

Serbia: 71 arrested as anti-Vučić protesters try to storm parliament

Protests began against renewed lockdown restrictions but have mushroomed into an expression of wider frustration with the hard-line rule of President Aleksandar Vučić.

11/07/2020

Serbia

Serbia protests: Vučić 'not worried' about losing power after unrest

Just weeks after being re-elected, the Serbian president said he wasn't worried about losing power after days of protest over his handing of the coronavirus pandemic and his hard-line leadership.

10/07/2020

Serbia

Serbian president backtracks on curfew after thousands protest

Thousands took to the streets of Belgrade again on Wednesday to protest the Serbian president's handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the country

08/07/2020

Serbia

Serbian defence minister tests positive for coronavirus

The defence secretary was tested after a state secretary in the Ministry of Defence was hospitalised for COVID-19.

27/06/2020

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Heavy rain causes floods in Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina

It's sparked memories of 2014 when both countries were badly hit by floods.

23/06/2020