Serbia's government has adopted a resolution annulling an expected declaration of independence to be issued by leaders of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.

Serbia's relations with the EU are teetering on the brink of collapse after Belgrade spurned an EU offer to cement ties.

Whether from a nostalgia for its existence as an imperial centre or as an escape from reality, the literary obsession of the Serbian capital grows with every passing season.

Like all nations, the people of the Balkans also have their culinary obsessions: the Turks put aubergines over everything, the Greeks – oregano, and the Bulgarians – a herb known as tshubritsa (a kind of savory), thus making the meaning of the saying "Every meal – with savory" literal (the proverb is normally used in reference to people who stick their nose in everything).

The European Union has postponed Thursday's signing of an aid-and-trade pact with Serbia, because of political infighting in Belgrade over the country's breakaway Kosovo province.

The European Commission has announced that the planned signing of a cooperation agreement with Serbia has been cancelled because of a dispute in Serbia's government coalition.

Commenting on Boris Tadic’s re-election victory as Serbia’s president - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said it was good for Serbia and the entire region.

Pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic becomes the winner of Serbia's presidential election, edging an ultranationalist ally of former president Slobodan Milosevic by a narrow margin.

With the passing of time, the nations that made up former Yugoslavia are beginning to see the strongly desired and violent fragmentation of the federation as a great loss. Developing a whole new set of Yugo-mythology, Serbs, Croats, Macedonians and even Slovenians set up to collect memorabilia, reinvent heroes, revive old and create new Yugo-festivities.

The Netherlands says it will refuse to back a major European Union trade and aid agreement with Serbia until Belgrade fully cooperates with the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal.

Serbia is heading for a showdown next month between a nationalist who leans towards Russia and a liberal favouring the West following the first round of a presidential election.

Serbia is heading to a presidential runoff election after nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic narrowly won Sunday's first round ahead of pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic.