If there was a referendum tomorrow with the question: "Do you support the accession of Serbia to the European Union?", 55% of Serbian citizens would vote for, 25% would vote against, while a total of 20% (10% each) would not vote at all or would not know how they would respond to this question - this is the result of the public opinion poll European Orientation of Serbian Citizens conducted by the Ministry of European Integration. A total of 1,050 respondents older than 18 participated in the survey that was designed according to the Standard Eurobarometer.

Today at the French Institute, Acting Assistant Minister of European Integration Ksenija Milenković has spoken with first-year students enrolled in Master’s programme "International Relations and European Affairs” of the Paris-Panthéon Sorbonne University. They discussed Serbia’s European integration and why it is important both for Serbia and the EU that the enlargement policy remains high on the Union’s agenda.

The Republic of Serbia has, successfully and within the planned deadline, completed the contracting of projects for the 2014 IPA Programme with a 90.08% contract rate, i.e. in the amount of EUR 59,220,430. So far, 86 contracts have been signed for this programming period.

Within the framework of the Exchange 5 Grant scheme, the implementation of 18 projects in the field of property management at the local level was approved. The projects will be implemented within the Component 1 of the Programme, and will include 48 local self-government units (18 coordinators and 30 partners) as well as a few other users (PUC, development agencies, CSOs).