Fact-Checks

Applicants for information of public importance are rarely citizens

“If we would just count the number of requests only very few citizens are among the applicants for information of public importance.”

August 2, 2019

Scrutinising 44 per cent of the law proposals under the urgent procedure

“We have removed 16 acts from the agenda by majority voting. I believe this is not a model for us to deal with the urgent procedure, for us to physically win over the government representatives or the government as a whole by majority voting. But we have managed to reduce this percentage from huge 66% to also substantial 44% proposals of the acts, which was the percentage of laws scrutinised under the urgent procedure in the last year.”

July 29, 2019

Freedom House has nothing new on Serbia

“Freedom House has nothing new. Freedom House is just an article written based on the last year report, and it refers much less to Serbia than last year.”

June 12, 2019

There is no mention of Serbia in Resolution 1244, but of FRY

“Resolution 1244 does not say anything about Serbia, it’s only about the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.”

May 31, 2019

Tourists from China daily spend up to EUR 1,000

“Calculate it yourselves, it’s like you have 500 people at a daily level who are paying all their expenses and everything else. And now tell me, if we can say that they spend 1,000 euros each, then just calculate how much it is – 500,000 a day. But they still spend somewhat less, so we have to give a bigger offer.”

May 26, 2019

Precisely 35 MPs do not participate in one part of Assembly work

“Precisely 35 MPs occasionally do not want to participate in one part of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia work.”

May 26, 2019

Today all journalists are safe

“The period from 2002 to 2008 was marked by assassinations of journalists in Serbia, but today all journalists are safe. Anyone who threatens a journalist is automatically and expediently brought to justice. These people are arrested, processed and brought before prosecutors’ offices and courts. Every threat, any violence, each strike. We are making the prescribed penalties more severe.”

May 26, 2019

At the beginning of 2019, we will be removed from the (black) list for money laundering

“I expect us to be removed from that list (FATF) at the beginning of the next year and that the FATF conference will note Serbia’s progress in the fields of prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing.”

May 24, 2019

No EU country suspended or considered suspending cooperation with Huawei

“Huawei is one of the largest suppliers of telecommunication equipment in EU countries as well and so far no country has either suspended (cooperation) or considered such option.”

May 24, 2019

Elections in Serbia are in no way questioned since 2012

“We had a whole set of different election cycles since 2012. And I must really say that all credible international organizations have never questioned for a single bit the democratic nature of our election cycle.”

May 20, 2019