The EU delegation to the country has said in a statement that the bloc "decided to release the first installment of budget support for Serbian worth 50 million" euros.
Serbia applied for European Union membership today in a drive to turn its back on the war, poverty and isolation of the 1990s, but its bid was likely to make little progress while Ratko Mladic remained at large.
Even as Serbia formally files its application to join the European Union, it still has much to do to prove its worthiness as a candidate. Chief among them -- handing over fugitive Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.
Serbia will formally apply for European Union membership today and take a major step in its efforts to turn its back on the war, poverty and international isolation of the 1990s.
Serbia will apply next week to join the European Union, a decade after the end of the Balkans wars whose legacy has hindered its progress, a Serbian government official said today.
The assembly of Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina has adopted a statute that will give it back some of the autonomy from Belgrade that it lost nearly two decades ago, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
The former director of a Serbian bus company says the firm's buses were used to transport Bosnian Muslims from the town of Srebrenica after it fell to Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
For the past 15 years, the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) has been focusing on tuberculosis, or TB, with a goal of curing people already infected and eventually eradicating the disease. The organization says new data shows it has exceeded that goal.
The United States and Russia, deeply divided over the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence, have presented opposing arguments about the move to the International Court of Justice.
The UN criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia today rejected a motion by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic challenging the legitimacy of the court to try him for war crimes.
Radovan Karadzic will challenge the decision by war crimes judges to appoint him a defense lawyer in a trial in which the former Bosnian Serb leader is representing himself, his legal adviser said today.
Serbian state security agents have raided three homes of suspected helpers of fugitive top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, seeking leads to the former Bosnian Serb military commander, an official said today.
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