Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic is set to join President Aleksandar Vucic’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Belgrade-based daily Blic reports on Tuesday. Brnabic told the daily she hopes the SNS would accept her, that she likes and respects the party and that she would discuss her membership with Vucic in the next few weeks. “The SNS is a party which is not afraid to change, to learn, to give people a chance even if they aren’t members as long as that makes sense for Serbia’s progress. The SNS supported me and trusted me when many others would not have.

Serbian President and ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic says no final decision has been made on holding parliamentary elections.

If Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic decides that extraordinary elections would be held on 31 March, they would be called for on 30 January, latest by 14 February, one day prior to Serbia’s Statehood Day, Prva TV reports this morning. However, if a decision is to have an election by mid-April, then they should be called for from 13^th to 18^th February.

Editor of BETA news agency, Dragan Janjic commenting on gathering of citizens to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin in Belgrade yesterday, said it was a manifestation intended for domestic public, rather than for Putin. “This was a manifestation of power, while authorities want to present it as the manifestation of support,” Janjic said. “And the very end, when Vucic asked Patriarch Irinej to ask Putin to address the gathered citizens is confirmation of that, because citizens are here to see Putin, and Vucic wanted him to tell few words to them.

President of the Social-Democratic Party (SDS), Boris Tadic told Serbian media that since Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) came into power, Serbia’s European path is not conditioned with the progress and level of achieved reforms, but with “the trade of the authorities, in which they are fulfilling requests related to Kosovo for the sake of an international applause and remain in power,” KiM Radio reported. Tadic also said that during his presidential mandate, “political hardliners were in power” in Pristina so there was no much space for policy of reconciliation and compromise. “However, it