EU and UNDP have donated specialised ballistic examination equipment worth more than EUR 50,000 to National Criminal-technical Centre of Serbian Criminal Police Department. The donation was delivered in the presence of Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport and Permanent Representative of UNDP Irena Vojačkova-Sollorano.
Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said that EU did not pressure Serbia, and that, when it comes to opening of negotiations, it insisted on fulfilling commitments under Brussels Agreement and normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations.
Joint Declaration by the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, on the European and World Day against the Death Penalty, 10 October 2015
The abolition of the death penalty worldwide is one of the flagship objectives of the EU’s human rights policy. It features as one of the top priorities in the recently adopted Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2015-2019).
Head of EU Delegation in Belgrade Michael Davenport said that Serbia made “major progress and concrete results” in the process of restitution which “is very important to ordinary citizens.”
In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in flows of refugees and migrants towards countries neighbouring Syria an thereafter along the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkans route. The majority are persons in need of international protection…
During his visit to Vrsac, Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said this Municipality was among the most successful when it comes to using EU pre-accession funds and other Serbian towns and municipalities should follow its example.
Today the European Commission has detailed its support of €17 million to help Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia cope with the unprecedented refugee flows in these countries ahead of the High Level Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean-Western Balkans route taking place today in Luxembourg.
Participants in debate “Serbia and EU – What Are Our Conditions” agreed that it was necessary to open negotiating chapters with Serbia as soon as possible, whereas Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said chapters 32 and 35 were the most likely to be opened first.
European Commission’s Audiovisual Service has produced a short stockshot on refugees in Serbia and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). This stockshot features footage from the Serbian/Croatian border and from the refugee aid centre in Sid, as well as from the Greek/FYROM border at Gevgelija.
