By Tatyana Kekic in Belgrade Serbia did not send a representative to the EU-Western Balkans summit in Brussels on December 17 after European Union member states again failed to agree on advancing Belgrade’s accession talks,

Affinity Partners withdraws from controversial Belgrade luxury development after Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic and three others accused of corruption

The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.

An investment company founded by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, has withdrawn from a planned $500 million hotel construction project in Belgrade amid a swirling controversy over the site,

Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, dropped its plans for a hotel in Serbia, after tensions around the project culminated in the indictment of a government official who helped clear a path for its development.

The New York Times writes that this decision spells the collapse of a deal that was an example of foreign governments being willing to go to great lengths to promote the financial interests of Donald Trump’s family.

An Azerbaijani delegation visited the monument to National Leader Heydar Aliyev in Tasmajdan Park in Belgrade during the international conference on

Serbia indicts Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic over the removal of heritage protections at Belgrade’s former military headquarters.