Experts fear the newly-announced payments for all adult citizens in Serbia, announced by Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, are part of a political campaign rather than a social measure.

With the Danube River at a historical low in some parts of Serbia, fuel imports arriving by river are at risk and energy production is being reduced.

Financial pressures are now the greatest threat to the survival of small, independent media in Serbia, journalists say.

Serbian women’s right organisations welcome Montenegrin law amendments introducing paid menstrual leave – and call for similar advance in their own country.