Serbia

12.05.2008 According to preliminary results issued by Centre for Free Elections and Democracy CeSID, the For European Serbia Coalition won in May 11 Parliamentary Elections and will get 103 seats in the Skupština.

05.05.2008 Serbian NGOs supported the Stabilisation and Association Agreement signed on April 29, in Luxemburg, by Vice-President of the Government of Serbia Božidar Đelić and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, on behalf of EU.

24.04.2008 The European Movement in Serbia launches its Vote Europe – See the Future! campaign, which aims to stimulate the citizens of Serbia to turn out at the polls in numbers in the coming Elections on May 11, 2008.

23.04.2008 The Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Serbia (MTID) announced that, between March 25 and April 9, 2008, over 20,000 copies of localized free software packages were downloaded from its servers by the citizens of Serbia.

17.04.2008 Thirty NGOs from Serbia condemned the detention of Dinko Gruhonjić, the head of BETA News Agency`s Correspondent Office in Novi Sad, during the action of the local branch of Otpor Movement on April 11, 2008.

11.04.2008 The campaign of the exiled Alternative Cultural Centre AKC to find a suitable space for alternative was initiated with the aim to gather open-minded people who agree that it is important to locate space in the city of Niš that will be given to the youth to use it freely.

10.04.2008 The Centre for Development of Civil Society warns that the decision of the Constitutional Court to annul the decision of the State Election Commission (SEC) to reduce the required number of signatures for presentation of candidates lists for political parties of the minorities from 10,000 to 3,000 could lead to a situation in which about 800,000 citizens of voting age to not prevented from possibility to exercise their right to political representation.

09.04.2008 The DataVoyage company from Užice, Serbia, annoucnes that is secured, in cooperation with FreeDNS, free-of-charge registration on the iz.rs domain, as a form of protest against the manner of organization of national domain and the unrealistically high registration fees.

08.04.2008 The EI Niš – European Initiative Niš Coalition started the implementation of the Serbia in EU – What`s in it for me, what is in it for my city? project.

01.04.2008 Caritas presented donation in computers and other equipment for the Home for Mentally Challenged Children and Youth in Veternik. The fundraising campaign was implemented during last Christmas Season.