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KLP logistics centre start of the construction ceremony to be held on 16 May

News 15th May 2019

The opening ceremony of the construction site KLP I to be held tomorrow, 16th May 2019, will present the project of the most modern...

Societe Generale Serbia has digital cards: Pay by phone at any time

Corporate 15th May 2019

Societe Generale Serbia has launched mCard - a service that enables contactless payment by smartphone at all POS terminals in the country and abroad,...

Humanitarian Foundation “Child’s Heart” helping children with cardiothoracic diseases for 27 years

News 14th May 2019

Today, within the celebration of its 40th business anniversary, JUBMES banka a.d. Beograd presented the website of the Humanitarian Foundation “Child’s Heart”. JUBMES banka participated...

Generali Srbija, general sponsor of the 86th International Agricultural Fair

News 11th May 2019

The 86th International Agricultural Fair officially opened in Novi Sad on Saturday, 11th May. Following the welcome addresses of Slobodan Cvetković, General Manager of...

UNIQA remains strongly positioned at the top of the insurance market

News 9th May 2019

According to a report issued by the National Bank of Serbia, with its share of 5.91% in 2018 UNIQA confirmed its stable fifth position...

Serbia advocates preserving stability, lasting peace in the region

News 29th April 2019

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić met in Berlin today with EU High Representative for Foreign...

Agreements with Chinese companies signed

News 24th April 2019

The delegation of the Republic of Serbia, led by President Aleksandar Vučić, signed today in Beijing several bilateral agreements in the field of infrastructure...

Serbia becomes the 23rd CERN member state

Faces & Places 23rd April 2019

Prime Minister Ana Brnabić attended in Geneva the ceremony of raising the flag of Serbia on the occasion of its accession into the European...

Intesa Invest organises Open Day

News 23rd April 2019

Investment fund management company Intesa Invest has organised an Open Day to mark the Investment Fund Day. At a total of 14 specialized branch offices...

Serbian Government allocates €1m for reconstruction of Notre Dame

News 22nd April 2019

The government of Serbia sent the French Republic a financial aid of €1 million for the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which...

Government allocates €6m for reconstruction of SANU Palace

News 17th April 2019

Prime Minister Ana Brnabić said during a visit to the Palace of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) that the government has...

UNIQA promoter handed medals to the fastest runners Belgrade Marathon

Corporate 14th April 2019

Sava Randjelović, a water polo representative and one of the promoters of UNIQA Insurance, at the invitation of this company, handed medals to the...

Prestigious PRWeek names Ketchum the Agency of the Past 20 years

News 12th April 2019

Leading global consulting & communications agency Ketchum was named the best agency of the past 20 years at the annual PRWeek awards. With a...

Open IV Competition for SIM students (P) ATIC PLC + Challenge 2019

News 8th April 2019

Company Siemens d.o.o. Belgrade, in cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade and student organization of the Association of Electrical Engineering...

Serbia and Austria sign Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of innovation

News 8th April 2019

Minister without Portfolio in charge of Innovation and Technological Development Nenad Popović and Austrian Federal Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology Norbert Hofer signed...

UNIQA with Children’s Marathon for the sixth year in a row

News 6th April 2019

UNIQA was a proud sponsor and official insurance company of the 26th Children’s Marathon. For the 6th year, UNIQA took care of the safety of...

China one of most important international partners of Serbia

News 5th April 2019

At today's meeting of Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Ambassador of China to Serbia H.E. Bo Chen, it was confirmed that Prime Minister Brnabić...

Issuance of work permits to foreigners simplified

News 4th April 2019

The Serbian government adopted the Bill on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Employment of Foreigners at today's session The proposed amendments will simplify...

May 2019, no 175 issue

May 2019 issue, no 175

CorD 5th May 2019

Comment by Nebojša Katić, Economist

When the UK formally initiated the process of leaving the EU by triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty two years ago, the British government promised the UK would leave the EU on 29th March 2019, with a new trade agreement combining the best of all worlds

Vladimir Kostić Ph.d. President of the Serbian Academy of Science and the Arts, SASA

Preserving Identity is Investing in Freedom

Interviews 6th May 2019

This time and its communication technologies are not favourable to small nations. Moreover, the seemingly unobtrusively drawn stance that we are closer to the shores of some global civilisation and cultural course, and that we’ll receive everything we need when we get there - is only enough for us to forget what has been and what we were. Blissful ignorance of the future! Although these words of mine will probably be understood as the mystification of identity, I consider its preservation as a prerequisite, a kind of deposit for free, straight and creative communication with the world - Vladimir Kostić

H.E. Chen Bo, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Serbia

Solid Steel Friendship

Interviews 6th May 2019

“Following the HBIS Group’s purchase of the steelworks and a number of reforms to production and management processes, the Smederevo Steelworks has become Serbia’s largest exporter and an employer of 5,000 workers. The problem of the quota [for the EU] represents a major challenge for the steelworks and has a negative impact on its work. We expect the quota problem to be resolved as soon as possible, in order to prevent it from having a negative impact on the healthy development of the steelworks” - Ambassador Chen Bo

James Ker-Lindsay, Analyst, Visiting Professor at LSE

The Importance of Not Representing a Precedent

Interviews 6th May 2019

I believe that it would be very dangerous to open discussions on the territorial integrity of Bosnia- Herzegovina or North Macedonia. However, I don’t believe that such debates are a necessary consequence of any agreement between Serbia and Kosovo. What is agreed between two sovereign states is not a precedent for others – James Ker-Lindsay

Focus

Do We Need a New Law to Determine the Origins of Assets?

Focus 6th May 2019

In a society where there is a belief that there are “selected taxpayers” with whom there is a discrepancy between reported revenues and acquired assets, there is a justified need for such cases to be investigated. The choice of the way we will do this tells us a lot about the social values we want to promote

International Women’s Club Belgrade

Honour, Job & Responsibility

Profile 6th May 2019

The life of a diplomatic spouse is anything but conventional. The spouse of diplomats must juggle a unique combination of family life, professional commitments, education, responsibilities and travel

Statement by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe

The New Japanese Era Name is “Reiwa”

Feature 6th May 2019

This was taken from wording appearing in the Manyoshu: “In this auspicious month of early spring, the weather is fine and the wind gentle. The plum blossoms open like powder before a mirror while the orchids give off the sweet scent of a sachet.” Moreover, this name “Reiwa” includes the meaning of culture coming into being and flourishing when people bring their hearts and minds together in a beautiful manner

Banking

Concerns Over European Bank Earnings

Business Dialogue 6th May 2019

Several analysts have raised concerns over earnings this quarter due to external risks such as low economic growth, uncertainty over U.S.-China trade deal, Brexit and a U-turn on major central bank policy towards more easing

Richard Branson

Simple Tricks – The Best Way for a Successful Business

Entrepreneurship 6th May 2019

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. One of the world’s wealthiest people, Richard Branson is worth an estimated $4.9 billion. This serial entrepreneur has built up eight billion-dollar companies and continues to innovate wherever possible

Vesna Todorčević, Ph.d., Associate Research Professor at the SASA Mathematical Institute; Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty Of Organisational Sciences

Maths and the Beauty of the World

Profile 6th May 2019

I’ve toured the world thanks to mathematics. Congresses and conferences in distant lands freed me of my old self, my authenticity flourished, returning me like winds and waves to my children and the people I love

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art

Storytelling Pictures

Art 6th May 2019

Australian Aboriginal Art has been identified as the most exciting contemporary art form of the 20th Century

Bojana Nikitović, Costume designer

I Don’t Have Complexes About Being from Serbia

My Life 6th May 2019

She’s the most successful woman from this region in the film world. She was the first associate to costume designer Milena Canonero when she won the 2007 Oscar for Best Costume Design for the Sofia Copolla’s film Marie Antoinette. She has long since operated as an independent costume designer for numerous top-class film productions. Apart from all of that, she also works in the theatre, which is her first and greatest love, and four Sterija Prizes merely serve to prove that she also does so very successfully

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