Medvedja - Vice President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Vidosava Dzagic, said that the Government of the Republic of Serbia, through the Office of the Coordination Body of the  Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, would financially assist the three municipalities with forty million dinars.

The Office of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja announced a competition for the allocation of subsidies to private companies in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja in 2012. The funds in the amount of 40 million are intended for small and medium-sized enterprises, cooperatives and entrepreneurs from the territory of the three municipalities.

Source: Pregled / Bujanovac – This year, the government will support the development of entrepreneurship in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja with 40 million dinars. Most of the grant is intended for small businesses in Bujanovac - 17 million dinars. The owners of small businesses in the municipality of Presevo may count on the subsidies amounting to the total of 15 million dinars, and those in Medvedja to eight million dinars.

On Friday, October 12, 2012, the Office of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja and the Faculty of Economics from Subotica organized the official beginning of the second year of operation of the Subotica-based Faculty of Economics’ Department in Bujanovac.

Source: Jugpress / Bujanovac - Mayor of Bujanovac, Nagip Arifi, said that "the highest priority of the local self- government in Bujanovac was economic development," adding that "it is the only way to come up with political stability.”

Source: Jugpress / Bujanovac – The USAID's Economic Security Program Manager, Michael Pillsbury, said that under that program 24 million dollars were invested in various projects over the past six years

Source: Jugpress / Bujanovac – As part of the project supported by the PBILD program, eighty young people are currently  undergoing practice at the local companies, said the Program Manager Nicholas Hercules.

Source: Jugpress / Bujanovac – Stojanca Arsic, Deputy Mayor of Bujanovac, said that a building for the accommodation of displaced persons from Kosovo, who are still residing in Bujanovac in four collective centers, would soon be constructed in that municipality.

Source: RTS / Sixty small football players received medals for fair play in a tournament in Bujanovac. They were assessing their football skills with their peers from other clubs, Serbian and Albanian ones. Football was being promoted there, as well as coexistence in a multiethnic environment. "I want to be as Deljban Tarifi, who left our club for “Skendi” in Tetovo" says Zijah Malići from FC “Trnovac".

The Office of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, with the support of the British Embassy, ​​organizes a free course in Serbian. Young people from the municipalities of Bujanovac and Presevo, who are from 15 to 30 years old, may apply in person at the following Coordination Body’s offices: The one in Bujanovac, located at 115, Karadjordja Petrovica St, on 017 654 601 or at office@kt.gov.rs The one Presevo, located at 12, Save Kovacevica Street, on 017 660 843 or at office@kt.gov.rs The deadline for applications is October 24, 2012. Application can be downloaded here