The project “Support to the Implementation of the Strategies for IDPs, Refugees and Returnees – Legal Aid”, financed by the EU under the IPA funds, has been extended to June 2015, ensuring not only the continued provision of legal aid to refugees, internally displaced, and returnees in series of cases already initiated at various institutions and courts, but also launching and solving the new ones.
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on EU drinking water policy, to see where improvements could be made. The consultation is a concrete response to Right2Water, the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative.
Losses due to tax fraud and evasion are estimated at several hundred billion euro a year in the EU alone and improving tax compliance remain an extraordinary challenge to both EU members and beyond, Algirdas Šemeta, European Union Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Anti-Fraud, Audit and Statistics said.
The programme to support Roma employment has been created within „We are here together – European Support for Roma Inclusion“ project financed by the European Union and implemented by OSCE Mission to Serbia.
Algirdas Šemeta, Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Anti-Fraud, Audit and Statistics is visiting Belgrade on 2nd and 3rd July.
Five Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), and the Republic of Moldova have secured full access to the European Union’s new seven year research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020.
The project “Cross-border Flood Protection and Rescue” which was funded by the European Union ended on April 14, 2014, only a month before worst floods that hit Serbia in a century. The activities that were released during the project, found their practical purpose during the catastrophic floods which affected Serbia.The beneficiaries who were participants of this project, actively took part in the rescue.
Finland and Serbia will work together on the twinning project “Improving tobacco control in the Republic of Serbia” aimed at protecting present and future generations from this incessant disaster, Finnish Ambassador Pekka Orpana said at the meeting organised by the EU Delegation to Serbia and EU Info Centre on the occasion of World no tobacco day.
European Union is ready to support Serbia along its path towards membership, but the accession process must be transparent and include all key stakeholders, the President of European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said after meeting Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade.
President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso said EU would continue to assist Serbia with the floods recovery, not only in weeks and months, but in the years to come.
