Within the marking of European Mobility Week, the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Serbia, EU Info Centre, and Secretariat for Transport of the City of Belgrade organise a drawing contest for primary and secondary schools pupils on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. Alternative mobility-themed drawings should not exceed the A3 format in size, and should be submitted by 5 September 2014.
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Every year there are devastating forest fires in Europe, destroying thousands of hectares of forests. The South European countries are at higher risk, but no European country is immune. When the fire gets too big for a country to extinguish it on its own, the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism can be activated to coordinate the response from participating states.
During the first hundred days of its new mandate, the Government of the Republic of Serbia has shown its consistent determination towards continuing European integrations and adjusting the Serbian legislature with the standards of the European Union, Head of the Delegation of EU to Serbia Michael Davenport said in a statement on the occasion of 100 days of the government of Serbia.
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton condemned the shelling of an UNRWA school in Gaza and of a market in Shuja’iyeh and urged for an investigation to be launched as well as civilian population to be protected in accordance with the international humanitarian law.
“Whether they are pleased or come running to you to brag about how a certain class was, in my profession, it is nice to see that children are making progress,” says Snežana Đorđević graduated special pedagogue currently employed as a pedagogical assistant in Knez Sima Marković primary school in Barajevo.
There are only a few minutes before your flight check-in closes, or before your train departs, but you now have to spend precious time hunting for a free space at the airport or station car park. Imagine leaving your vehicle at the main entrance and letting the car do the rest on its own. Researchers from Germany, Italy, the UK and Switzerland are working on this, and successful tests took place at Stuttgart airport earlier this year. €5.6 million of EU funding is invested in the system which will be available in the coming years.
Human trafficking is a gross violation of human rights and fight to eradicate it must remain a political priority both within and beyond European borders, said European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström on the first World Day against Trafficking in Persons. She urged all citizens to take personal responsibility and be more thoughtful about lifestyle choices and consumer habits in order to avoid by all means to be involved in “this scourge.”

Book about the history of homosexuality in Serbia entitled “Between Us: Untold Stories about the Lives of Gay and Lesbian…
European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou has written a letter to EU Education Ministers urging them to ensure that children have the opportunity to develop basic computer coding skills in school.

In 2014 Serbian employers will create 7.7 percent of new jobs, but at the same time they will shut down 8.1 percent of the existing jobs, meaning the job rate growth will be – 0,4 percent, but as early as in 2015, employers plan to make this ratio positive by creating 2.6 percent new jobs compared to the number of the jobs lost. These are the main results of a Survey that covered over 6,000 employers, conducted by National employment service in the framework of the EU-funded project Support to evidence-based employment policy creation.