Serbia is the last country in Europe that still has not opened its secret services files and the European Parliament (EP) has called on Belgrade to do so soon.

Top Serbian government officials claim that they have nothing against opening of the secret files and revealing the names of the people who worked for the secret services.

Democratic Party (DS) leader Boris Tadi stated on Saturday that electoral list Choice for a Better Life offered a clear plan for the future.

He explained that the plan focused on the ways for the funds available to the government to be invested in the future and development, and added that they were not promising fairytales.

Six persons, three young women and three men, lost their lives in a fire that broke out in Novi Sads Contrast night club around 02:00 CET on Sunday.

According to the preliminary information, the fire broke out on the clubs stage and it was caused by faulty electrical wiring.

Serbias Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovi told B92 that local elections most likely would not be organized in Kosovo.

We do not want to violate (UN Security Council) Resolution 1244 and we most likely will not organize the local elections in Kosovo and Metohija, he stressed.

Government troops will stay in urban areas until “peace and security prevail,” the Syrian government said on Saturday.

“The presence of the Syrian Arab Army in Syrian cities is for defensive purposes [so] as to protect the civilians,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jihad Makdissi told state media late on Friday, according to al Ajazeera televison.

The Banja Luka Public Security Center has filed charges against Croatian Democratic Alliance (HDZ) top official Boa Raji for crimes against Serb civilians.

The Banja Luka Public Security Center filed the criminal charges against Raji and another six persons for crimes against civilians and soldiers killed in Kupres and in camps in Herzegovina and Croatia.

Serbian President Boris Tadi on Saturday called on Serbians in the Diaspora to return to their mother country and invest in family businesses.

During a visit to Minipek-Plaane company in Despotovac which was founded by a Serb returnee from France Miodrag Jovi 13 years ago, the president underscored that he would like more Serbians from the Diaspora to follow in their footsteps and continue their work in Serbia.

Greek Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos Friday warned that neo-Nazi group Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn) could enter parliament after May elections.

He stressed that the main reason was voters’ anger over the debt-stricken country’s economic and social hardships, AFP has reported.

Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) Gendarmerie officers arrested two Kosovo police (KPS) members in the Merdare region around 10:30 CET on Saturday.

According to Interior Minister Ivica Dai, the arrested Kosovo police officers had two automatic rifles, two handguns and special equipment for distance measurement.

Ethnic Albanian Hasan Abazi, who was arrested at the Konulj administrative crossing, has been remanded in custody for a month, the Higher Court in Vranje says.

Abazis defense counsel Mladen Vasi has also confirmed the information.

World’s best tennis player Novak okovi qualified for the Miami Masters ATP final after defeating Argentina’s Juan Monaco early on Saturday, 6-0, 7-6 (7-5).

Britain’s Andy Murray also qualified for the final after Spaniard Rafael Nadal retired due to a knee injury.

Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) leader Radim Ljaji has ruled out a possibility that the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will form a ruling majority.

However, he added that it was possible that the Democratic Party (DS) would not be able to form the majority after elections either.

China announced a crackdown on the use of social media websites on Saturday following recent rumors that a coup was underway.

The decision comes after several web users posted pictures of Chinese military vehicles which they claimed were on the streets of Beijing.

Farmers from Vojvodina handed a list of their request to Interior Minister Ivica Dai on Friday and announced that they will unblock the roads.

Protest organizing committee members say that the farmers will take their tractors and machines off the roads by April 24 but they point out that they would completely block the roads across the country the next day if the government failed to fulfill their conditions.

Five Serbs, who were arrested by Kosovo police special units (ROSU) on February 25 in Gnjilane were released on Saturday, Ministry for Kosovo has stated.

The source from the ministry could not give any more details but added that all five men were on their way home.

Belgrade will give up on the local elections in Kosovo due to high security risks, daily Veernje novosti has reported.

According to the daily, the security risks would be too high without UNMIK and international communitys help.

The widow of Slobodan Miloevi, Mirjana Markovi, had harsh words about eljko Mitrovi in her book entitled, “Destierrada e Imperdida” (Exiled and Unlost).

Mitrovi, the owner of Belgrade-based Pink TV, was a member of Markovis Yugoslav Left (JUL) party in the 1990s and was one of her closest associates.

The Kosovo police will seize new Serbian license plates wherever they find them in Kosovo, the Kosovo Interior Ministry released on Friday.

The Kosovo Interior Ministry stressed that such number plates were illegal.

Fatmir Limaj, one of the former leaders of the ethnic Albanian KLA, was involved in war crimes “that include human organ trafficking”.

This is according to Serbian deputy war crimes prosecutor, Bruno Vekari.

Dissatisfied farmers from Vojvodina continued the protests against the government’s decision to grant subsidies per output unit rather than per hectare of land.

Meanwhile, Minister of Agriculture Duan Petrovi said that the subsidy policy was “economically justified, and there is no reason to change it”.

The president of the Serb National Council (SNV) of Northern Kosovo and Metohija has announced that elections will be held in northern parts of the province.

Milan Ivanovi spoke on Friday in Kosovska Mitrovica to say that elections will be organized in the same manner as a recent referendum, that saw the Serb-majority area reject the ethnic Albanian-dominated Kosovo institutions:

Heroin addicts in the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica are able to buy this illegal drug at a kiosk, according to a report in the local Vijesti newspaper.

The kiosk is reportedly located in the Konik neighborhood, opposite the local health-care center.

The Fiscal Council supports the Serbian government efforts to reduce the budget deficit, but warns the planned austerity measures would not be sufficient.

The resulting total of RSD 15.7 billion is not enough, even if it were achieved, the Fiscal Council said, adding that its projections put the actual figure that should come as the result of the measures at around RSD 13 billion.

Ruling Democratic Party (DS) leader and Serbian President Boris Tadi said on Friday that he was sure of his partys victory in the upcoming elections on May 6.

He spoke while on a visit to Trieste, Italy.

Greek police on Friday started detaining illegal immigrants squatting in abandoned buildings in downtown Athens.

The police have also announced that they will continue the operation on a daily basis.

The Serbian government accepted on Thursday an amendment to the Law on VAT, abolishing VAT duty paid on baby food and other products.

The government put the amendment on the agenda as an initiative that came from President Boris Tadi.

The owner of a Belgrade restaurant has been arrested on suspicion that he organized a bomb attack on the house of a former footballer, it has been confirmed.

Interior Minister Ivica Dai said that Dragan Buli aka Aca was under arrest.

Nobody in this country can boycott the work of police as police is national rather than anybody’s private possession, says Interior Minister Ivica Dai.

His statement on Friday came in reaction that a call by Chairman of the Bosniak (Muslim) National Council (BNV) Esad Dudevi for boycotting the state institutions.

When German Draeger Company workers found out that they will deliver 200 incubators to Serbia, they wanted to do something more for prematurely born babies.

They have come up with an idea to knit miniature socks for the smallest babies during their lunch break and send them to Belgrade along with the incubators.