Aleksandar Vučić

Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has launched his campaign for prime minister ahead of a pivotal election on October 25

Serbian strongman quits presidency for tilt at prime minister’s job

Regional BIRN news service reported in the same month that Serbia’s Yugoimport SDPR state arms producer would open a drone plant with Elbit Systems

The conviction of four former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders has drawn sharply different reactions across the Balkans, with Serbia accusing the court of failing to fully address crimes against Serbs

Serbia to go to polls on Oct 25 for snap elections

Serbian ministers attended despite earlier assurances no serving officials would be present, with Mladić's coffin arriving draped in the national flag and his medals on display

The proposal came after a recent session of the Main Board of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), at which the party unanimously nominated President Aleksandar Vucic as its candidate for prime minister in the upcoming parliamentary election

Thousands are expected at Mladić's burial in Belgrade on Monday, which will proceed without serving officials, artillery salutes or ceremonial military presence

Serbia's Justice Minister Nenad Vujic was on the plane with Mladic's family members while groups of nationalist admirers lit flares as the convoy with the coffin passed under escort

Vucic, along with First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali, Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Aleksandra Sofronijevic, and Zhang Zhe, charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Serbia, attended the event

Smoke from the wildfires still hangs over parts of Serbia, but as the flames slowly recede, another debate is taking shape in their wake — one that has less to do with firefighting and more with politics

He died a week after the U.N. rejected his latest request for release on humanitarian grounds

His company produces the "Upyr," or "Ghoul," a first-person-view attack drone used by Russian forces in Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelensky was making his first official visit to Serbia — a rare European country still closely aligned with Moscow — on Saturday as Ukraine seeks to bolster international support in the face of intensifying Russian strikes

Accompanying the UAE leader were Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy chairman of the Presidential Court for Special Affairs; and Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, adviser to the UAE president; along with senior ministers and officials

Last week, Serbia’s parliament backed relaxing controversial rules that international legal experts had warned would undermine the independence of the judiciary and weaken the fight against organized crime

Vucic announced his plan to resign on Saturday, paving the way for early presidential and parliamentary ‌elections

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen are due to arrive in the coastal ​town of Tivat on Friday to meet leaders of the six ​Western Balkan countries and discuss progress towards EU membership

The Crown Prince and Macron reviewed areas of joint cooperation between Saudi Arabia and France, and explored ways to support and further strengthen them across a number of fields

When robots performed Serbia's Moravac folk dance on Wednesday at an innovation center in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic saw more than a display of smart technology

Vucic is in China for a state visit from May 24 to 28

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday held back-to-back talks in Beijing with visiting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, as China's home-field diplomacy welcomes old friends amid an active diplomatic blitz in May

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic arrived in Beijing on Sunday for a state visit to China from May 24 to 28

The demonstration went ahead despite the state rail operator canceling trains to and from Belgrade

Of the six Western Balkan countries hoping to join the EU, Montenegro is viewed as the frontrunner

The annual ritual that is the Victory Day Parade in Moscow serves a dual purpose

US grants Serbian oil firm NIS new sanctions waiver

OFAC imposed sanctions on NIS last October ​as part of wider measures targeting Russia's energy sector over ​the war in Ukraine, and demanded divestment of Gazprom Neft and Gazprom, its Russian majority owners

Almost 800 Hungarian government email addresses and associated passwords are circulating online, revealing basic vulnerabilities in the security protocols of ministries involved in classified and sensitive work

Both Serbia and Hungary are still heavily reliant on Russian energy supplies, putting them odds with other European countries seeking to reduce their reliance on Russian supplies

Cheaper ‌imports of Russian gas cover up to 90% of Serbia's needs, though Belgrade has sought to diversify supply with gas from Azerbaijan and liquefied natural gas from terminals in Greece

Serbia is striving to balance its partnership ‌with NATO and aspirations to join the European Union with its centuries-old religious, ethnic and political alliance with Russia and strategic ties with China, a major investor

Photos, which began circulating on social media and defence blogs earlier this week, showed missiles believed to be Chinese-made CM-400AKG cruise missiles attached to Serbia’s Russian-made MiG-29 planes

Until now, United Group's broadcasters were considered critical of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic

An emergency EU summit was hastily convened earlier this week after the US president announced he would impose 10% tariffs on eight European nations that defended Greenland, an autonomous territory that is part of Denmark

As Donald Trump escalates his attacks on the continent, his scorched-earth approach to transatlantic relations is becoming a political liability — even for leaders who previously benefited from their association with him

For the first time since at least 2002, Europe is now a bigger market for U.S. exports than Asia, exposing the risk that a trade war with Europe poses to U.S. companies and their workers as President Trump presses to take over Greenland

He spelled out a hedging strategy that Canada is already pursuing, diversifying its trade and supply chains and even opening its market to Chinese electric vehicles to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-made automobiles

President Donald Trump’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21 was intended to project confidence and command on the world stage

Protesters in Novi Sad, chanting "thieves," accused the government of rampant corruption that they believe also led to a November 2024 train station disaster in the northern city that killed 16 people and triggered the nationwide movement for change

After years of public criticism directed at Europe, US President Donald Trump put together a National Security Strategy (NSS) that reflected his twisted perceptions

At sea last month, a sanctioned tanker hauling roughly 300,000 barrels of Russian naphtha slipped into Venezuelan waters even as other ships hesitated or turned back

US grants temporary sanctions reprieve to Russian-controlled Serbian oil firm: Belgrade

The EU has planned to approve the 20th package of sanctions against Russia by 24 February 2026, the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine