The Association of Serbian Businessmen of Switzerland has been actively involved in celebrating the Day of the Republic of Srpska, so the Medal of Merit to the People it was awarded on the occasion of that holiday represents the support and recognition for decades of work on connecting the diaspora and the motherland. That afforded an opportunity for interview with Stojan Stevanović, president of the Association of Serbian Businessmen of Switzerland. As the president of a Serbian diaspora association, what is
At the initiative of several students of Serbian origin, Serbian Cultural Club was recently founded at the prestigious US DePaul University based in Chicago with the aim to bring together all our academics who study there, regardless of whether they came from the homeland to study or were born and raised in America. Third-year management student
The eleventh Serbian New Year’s concert, organized by the Serbian Educational and Cultural Society (SECS) Prosvjeta, was held in the pleasant atmosphere of the Vienna Concert Hall (Ehrbar Saal). The guests included members of Austrian institutions, Ms Gudrun Kugler, Mr Maximilian Krauss and others, and head of the Representative Office of the Republic of Srpska in Austria, Mr Mladen Filipović, assistant minister for cooperation with
The Minister of Economy and Entrepreneurship of the Republic of Srpska, Vojin Mitrović, said that compared to the adjacent countries, the Republic of Srpska offered investors the best conditions for doing business: EU proximity, intensive infrastructure development and tax reliefs. Mitrović said that the institutions had to show what Srpska offered to potential investors and which areas were
The Union of Krajina Associations from Novi Sad, supported by the Fund for Refugees, Displaced Persons and Cooperation with Serbs in the Region and Republic of Srpska Representative Office in Serbia, celebrated last evening the Republic of Srpska Day and Slava the Holy First Martyr and Archdeacon Stefan. The ceremony held at the SPENS amphitheatre in Novi Sad sent the messages
The Minister of European Integration and International Cooperation of the Republic of Srpska, Zlatan Klokić, thanked the guests from Austria who had come for the celebration of the Day of the Republic and thus supported with their presence the efforts to defend the institutional integrity and legitimacy of the Republic of Srpska. The Representative Office of the Republic of Srpska in Austria organized a luncheon in Banja Luka for representatives of Serbian associations and businessmen from Austria who
The program of the assembly of the Association of Writers of Serbia held in the Serbian Army House in Belgrade included presenting the traditional recognitions of this important institution, one of which was awarded to prof. Srđan Mijalković, founder of the SECS Prosvjeta Committee Vienna. Mijalković, who is the vice-president of Viennese Prosvjeta, was ceremoniously presented with a special recognition, a plaque with the image of Simo Matavulj, an author
The minister without portfolio in charge of relations with the diaspora, Đorđe Milićević, presented the results of previous work and introduced preparations for the development of a strategy on preserving and strengthening relations between Serbia and its people in the diaspora. Milićević said that Serbs outside the motherland insisted on the formation of a ministry in charge of cooperation with the diaspora. At the final media conference of the year
A Serbian supplementary school has been opened in Cannes. Classes in Serbian have been organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia, free of charge for all children who want to improve their knowledge of the Serbian language, and are currently attended by 43 children. The classes in French territory have a great support from the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Paris and Balkan Azur association
The minister without portfolio in charge of coordinating activities and measures in the field of Serbia’s relations with the diaspora, Đorđe Milićević, said that he expected a large number of Serbian citizens to return to the country in the coming period, among other things, due to re-established trust, but also economic stability and stability of the legal system. ‘The distrust that once existed in relation to our compatriots living outside Serbia and the motherland is there no more
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