Projects for the development of economic infrastructure, which have been funded by the European Union and the Government of Switzerland through the Program of the European Partnership with Municipalities EU PROGRESS for two years, should enable the investment of 7, 5 million euros in the South and Southwest Serbia.
READ MOREA group of twenty-one representatives of public, private and civil sectors discussed the possibilities for cooperation between the businesses sector and local communities, through initiatives for corporate social responsibility. The participants included the General Manager of BAT (British American Tobacco), as well as representatives of the Office for Economic Development and of the Regional Development Agencies of Jablanica and Pcinj Districts.
READ MOREThe Regional Chamber of Commerce in Leskovac (RCCL) successfully completed another project in the field of cross-border cooperation. The point at issue is a project whose ultimate goal is the common appearance of Serbian and Bulgarian businessmen on the European market, and during which, among other things, a 16 – day training in the field of management systems was organized for Serbian and Bulgarian businessmen.
READ MOREGraeme Tyndall, Head of the EU PROGRESS, which is a project supported in Serbia by the European Union and the Government of Switzerland, said that the program would support forty more new projects, as well as that around six million euros had been set aside for the previous projects implemented in twenty-five municipalities in the southern and south-western Serbia.
READ MOREThe new local authorities in Bujanovac, which consist of the Democratic Party, the Stojanca Arsic Civic Group and the coalition around the Democratic Party, were established without the influence and pressure from the outside. The President of the municipality of Bujanovac and the Leader of the Democratic Party, Nagip Arifi, said that the deal made was the “agreement between neighbors, Albanians and Serbs”.
READ MOREWhat is the situation in South Serbia that you are leaving to your successor like, since you are soon to leave our country? What thus-far achievements in South Serbia make you quite satisfied, and in which field in South Serbia, in your opinion, there is some room for improvement?
READ MOREBujanovac – Several villages along the border with Macedonia, which are situated in the municipality of Bujanovac, are, from the beginning of July, supplied with water from the water tanks, because the sources of drinking water in the area dried up, said yesterday the technical director of the city’s public enterprise "Komunalac" Sami Aliji.
READ MORELeskovac – Zoran Kostic, Assistant Minister of Education and Science, gave recently to the pupils of primary and secondary schools in the Jablanica and Pcinj districts albums containing 25 coins with the portraits of statesmen, scholars, saints and artists who had left their marks in the Serbian history.
READ MOREBelgrade – Representatives of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the German humanitarian aid organization “Help” signed the agreement, under which the implementation of partnership programs to reduce youth unemployment in South Serbia and Sandzak will be extended. USAID is obliged by the agreement to provide training in basic business skills to a group of 259 winners of ”Help” grants to start up production, which amounts to 3, 000 US dollars per person.
READ MOREPresevo –The "Solidarity and Improvement Center" NGO from Presevo distributed humanitarian aid to 25 vulnerable families in the municipalities of Bujanovac and Presevo. The packages contain the most needed food and hygiene products. The said humanitarian organization has been providing humanitarian aid to the poorest six times per year since 2007.
READ MOREVranje – In recent years, many informative web portals are all over the south of Serbia. All of them are struggling for the Internet readers. Owners and editors of these sites justify their existence by the fact that citizens are interested in what happens in their area of service, starting from the service, through sports, to political information, which often have no place in the "big" media.
READ MOREBujanovac – Representatives of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and of the Faculty of Economics presented to the secondary school graduates from Bujanovac and Presevo the Faculty’s program and invited them to take entrance exams for the next school year at the Faculty’s department in Bujanovac.
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