Abu Dhabi will invest $4BN in Belgrade mega project

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnF_qUDLm9zD4xfkL_3NuGtgXw9DjJZDTmZsNbyzgvvBqMi-Hp1Y4H-6fj7bJTDtJz3o127c1RN1bV0CHjekR0X_ofQUrbxpPTRIj1YDSZMfFwSYSb6UnK6vSOFuyqBsPUcp_HwTAnCMEL/s1600/Work+starts+on+$4bn+Abu+Dhabi-backed+Belgrade+mega+project-passion4luxury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnF_qUDLm9zD4xfkL_3NuGtgXw9DjJZDTmZsNbyzgvvBqMi-Hp1Y4H-6fj7bJTDtJz3o127c1RN1bV0CHjekR0X_ofQUrbxpPTRIj1YDSZMfFwSYSb6UnK6vSOFuyqBsPUcp_HwTAnCMEL/s1600/Work+starts+on+$4bn+Abu+Dhabi-backed+Belgrade+mega+project-passion4luxury.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A journalist takes a picture with her smartphone of a computer-generated image during a presentation of the Belgrade Waterfront project in Belgrade. (AFP/Getty Images)</span></div><a name="more"></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Work has officially begun on the Belgrade Waterfront, a $4 billion joint venture between an Abu Dhabi real estate investment company in Abu Dhabi and the Serbian government.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In comments published by AMEinfo, Sinisa Mali, mayor of Belgrade, said phase one, which involves demolishing and clearing up existing properties on the city’s riverbank, has started.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In June, Serbia unveiled plans to redevelop the Belgrade waterfront, aiming to make the capital a tourism and business hub.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Belgrade Waterfront project promises office and luxury apartment blocks, eight hotels, a shopping mall and a tower resembling Dubai's landmark Burj Khalifa, albeit a quarter of the size at 200 metres, on the right bank of the Sava River.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The project is to be co-financed and led by Dubai-based construction company Eagle Hills, with the company reportedly agreeing to put up the €3bn ($4.08bn) cost of the scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“Serbia will be responsible for the entire cleanup effort of 1.8 million square metres of land, which includes Belgrade’s central train station, as well as the infrastructure connecting the area with the rest of the city. The investor (Eagle Hills) will finance everything inside of the borders of the Belgrade Waterfront,” Mali was quoted as saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It is the signature project of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's coalition government, which has pledged to create jobs and growth and turn Belgrade into a business hub for the Western Balkans.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The proposed area for development, Savamala, houses grand, century-old buildings that have become derelict, though the area has started to re-emerge as a cultural hub. Unlike some parts of Belgrade, the area escaped damage by NATO bombing during the Kosovo conflict in 1999 but the right bank of the Sava is blighted by a seedy central railway station and bus terminus.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In March, while Vucic was deputy premier, Serbia secured a $1bn, 10-year loan from the United Arab Emirates to prop up its budget. Last year, Abu Dhabi's state-owned Etihad Airways bought a minority stake and gained managerial rights in troubled Serbian flag carrier JAT Airways.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Abu Dhabi will invest $4BN in Belgrade mega project

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Jelena Petijević, the creator of Peti fashion brand

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dQMrO7h4RWgwHWmumC0dxpDO0ykAoVuF7vhO4vi7hBot_m8Vff2iMf-OQO5y5p7bVmYzMngIsgCpOO8kn8ypx-0kDbORjy0_JW98u0yH5CcVpdq8mk_znJBZ9jq_VAW1a-LalDrONipH/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6dQMrO7h4RWgwHWmumC0dxpDO0ykAoVuF7vhO4vi7hBot_m8Vff2iMf-OQO5y5p7bVmYzMngIsgCpOO8kn8ypx-0kDbORjy0_JW98u0yH5CcVpdq8mk_znJBZ9jq_VAW1a-LalDrONipH/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">New IN BLOOM collection by fashion designer Jelena Petijević, is feminine, sophisticated and airy, with loads of romantic motifs…</div><a name="more"></a>Jelena Petijević, the creator of Peti fashion brand, who is a dentist and a fashion designer, says that here life guides are knowledge and beauty. In both of her professional callings “capable hands” are a must have, and of course, a sense of beauty. She appreciates her experience and knowledge she got in Belgrade schools, and also her education in the fields of health, nutrition and aesthetic, but the most precious knowledge she got is the sense of becoming a better person when you have kids, kinder and richer, because then you learn about unconditional love which never seizes to exist.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like every lady, Jelena Petijević liked being surrounded with pretty things since she was a little girl, and began thinking of the ways for creating and painting her own beautiful things in the early teen age. Her imagination and creativity were always a part of her unique personality. She finds inspiration for her work all around here, in everything she sees and feels… Like smells of nature, color of the sky, kids drawings, old movies and travels…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are no compromises in her designs; they always carry her style, a part of her personality and understanding of aesthetics and beauty. Every design she makes is attractive by itself, and this fashion designer states that she feels true pleasure when people see something special in her designs and when they want to wear them and enjoy in them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUMJ2Qe70rWnyf0-Qx8MRE9GJ8As7eNtDJ04mqQa2Y4gFAWJUabRU1p87KcGYIPbzyrzQCCzgzc6eglM-ymCIQGa560Y4LtWNd98lMTuUybAXffRwTPC3rLY1cEB9Pm8JJy01BLcCFlzz/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUMJ2Qe70rWnyf0-Qx8MRE9GJ8As7eNtDJ04mqQa2Y4gFAWJUabRU1p87KcGYIPbzyrzQCCzgzc6eglM-ymCIQGa560Y4LtWNd98lMTuUybAXffRwTPC3rLY1cEB9Pm8JJy01BLcCFlzz/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0pr_4AE5jQB8YVeK-VFOPgl4Gyoa52rhBIr3ZDog_WQHeG33FzFoYXoYEQLkfFs8alzXsJWByFaMuE6hyoDTIaz9QRl2UKzZ3RSFQgXjFF04zCMRtxAoj7x7oxbSGrUMpU_81HoWXXRFP/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0pr_4AE5jQB8YVeK-VFOPgl4Gyoa52rhBIr3ZDog_WQHeG33FzFoYXoYEQLkfFs8alzXsJWByFaMuE6hyoDTIaz9QRl2UKzZ3RSFQgXjFF04zCMRtxAoj7x7oxbSGrUMpU_81HoWXXRFP/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-2.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczcMYli7FoK7ejd0osrBoBBfiXiX-7asge4wSbVQgPUxGlKGKGAS6EOHC-Mzb91Pr2tvOyxfAI6Txp44akvdGwWZzgBaR3rkU0pR-Vud8kcjiv-fKxyfxTH28y7aFt4aczX_DbpYEC_jx/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczcMYli7FoK7ejd0osrBoBBfiXiX-7asge4wSbVQgPUxGlKGKGAS6EOHC-Mzb91Pr2tvOyxfAI6Txp44akvdGwWZzgBaR3rkU0pR-Vud8kcjiv-fKxyfxTH28y7aFt4aczX_DbpYEC_jx/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-3.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXnrSV4-iZFMVOvnvyJOk1yvGp-_fGdmh_O8mub8JyfAoQq0s3SN0e1USPvBMMlXPhQPycwse5_TsjH4ATmpqrlY95ig7uMWqjejcOCNsRuCWFxN8quj3y1caNAd6AXmoMjShyphenhyphentfT_ArI/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXnrSV4-iZFMVOvnvyJOk1yvGp-_fGdmh_O8mub8JyfAoQq0s3SN0e1USPvBMMlXPhQPycwse5_TsjH4ATmpqrlY95ig7uMWqjejcOCNsRuCWFxN8quj3y1caNAd6AXmoMjShyphenhyphentfT_ArI/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> She presented her fall 2013 collection recently on a solo show, during the Belgrade Fashion Week. In her collection IN BLOOM layers and attention devoted to details are the key words. You can feel the atmosphere of the historic costumes of Europe in the past times in her clothes. Her designs get their form from perfect modeling and quality materials.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hand sawed silk applications talk about distinctive and sophisticated sensibility of the designer. Her desire to recreate historical costumes into fashionable and wearable clothes is settled into an urban city, which become tranquil for a moment with the pleasant colors of a blooming garden.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jelena Petijević’s fashion show was marked with a fairy tale atmosphere, which tickled the imagination of every person in the audience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“If one designer wants to be successful, he or she has to have a great desire, a lot of effort and sleepless nights. Everyone carries a talent hidden deep inside them, and that talent needs to be allowed to swim up to surface, in the perfect time and place. I was always the kind of person with a plan for every possible situation, but this time, I want to take things slow, so every step is the right one…” says Jelena.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkGsmIj5JexTtXBeEaCgzuIpKEZSSGdHj00-O3Ruup1BgH0xYRbmwQR1Oke2csZIfdoij-JQ9fhzgTv1WJ8IYfSqrIj9xUL0zAwV40IKEMjTOPMLgc5xQBD4jb15GNM5XF7GdRVC6bqG6/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkGsmIj5JexTtXBeEaCgzuIpKEZSSGdHj00-O3Ruup1BgH0xYRbmwQR1Oke2csZIfdoij-JQ9fhzgTv1WJ8IYfSqrIj9xUL0zAwV40IKEMjTOPMLgc5xQBD4jb15GNM5XF7GdRVC6bqG6/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-4.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQEudFhkOEodjHNZStm9DEpOWQJC3BfVJZy9ZdIwF8_JFVKvg0p8BP6bR0ZwH4COXhspCqJMAyPTBvMsjAFp8iluFK-D3KW2ve8o0cLqsug30HfWgfad5m-Dq7S4ho2JluEwYL1gsxAn_n/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQEudFhkOEodjHNZStm9DEpOWQJC3BfVJZy9ZdIwF8_JFVKvg0p8BP6bR0ZwH4COXhspCqJMAyPTBvMsjAFp8iluFK-D3KW2ve8o0cLqsug30HfWgfad5m-Dq7S4ho2JluEwYL1gsxAn_n/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-5.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_jMJjOa0mHQ5b9tRLHSjqBGdBoPskkX8arqILudKZ_Z2cLGzbnwW9tBYMRDfpxUCWclLH2lFPxu4xE77XgS5cQOViA-htZr2RMQQBHVCHe-3hPekwskaTQ2uVY0wfw0k-J7nHSWYUp08/s1600/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_jMJjOa0mHQ5b9tRLHSjqBGdBoPskkX8arqILudKZ_Z2cLGzbnwW9tBYMRDfpxUCWclLH2lFPxu4xE77XgS5cQOViA-htZr2RMQQBHVCHe-3hPekwskaTQ2uVY0wfw0k-J7nHSWYUp08/s640/petijevic-elena-peti-in-bloom-passion4luxury-6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>

Jelena Petijević, the creator of Peti fashion brand

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Rolex opens in Belgrade largest store in Central Europe

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6HlZ_IHFCSPWQ3OCD5954r551qk1gPPTYNnJ7ZVquvulTPdbn2CbpvVSfLS33VJEsHf3VF8oDBRyu0KPuglnzH-dHROQqNcVUMPBiatYTylQWkpPnByK_gGo-CKFHdhJ3pgd9_GmxdtG5/s1600/228912_10151057417621592_753165910_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6HlZ_IHFCSPWQ3OCD5954r551qk1gPPTYNnJ7ZVquvulTPdbn2CbpvVSfLS33VJEsHf3VF8oDBRyu0KPuglnzH-dHROQqNcVUMPBiatYTylQWkpPnByK_gGo-CKFHdhJ3pgd9_GmxdtG5/s640/228912_10151057417621592_753165910_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.petitegeneve.com/en/">Petite Geneve Group</a>, the pioneers of luxury watches and jewelry retail in Serbia for over a decade, inaugurated earlier this week, in Belgrade Serbia, the brand new <a href="http://www.rolex.com/rolex-dealers/dealers-locator/retailers-details/petrovicpetitegeneve.belgrade.serbia.rolexdealers.com" target="_blank">Rolex</a> store, a 250 sqm space reflecting the latest international retail store concept. Spread over three levels, the Rolex store in Belgrade is situated downtown  Uskočka 7, also features an open glass service area. <i>Petite Geneve Group</i>, co-owned by the Petrovic family, also owns and operates the Rolex store in Budapest, Hungary. The inaugural event was attended by the Ambassador of Switzerland to Serbia.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.petitegeneve.com/en/">Petite Geneve Group</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">See Clip  </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="266" id="BLOGGER-video-7ee7e1dce0875f89-395" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwVCamuUvEdrB5t_h3xXIQKckAUO0BOOqb8G5KGXvpcjDUENwosdajVEODN15KydEnqLl2vv2t0oPLzcqRoc08Hy2NQpSIndGBNGKv7xmguDFsXksS1I3GQeVONTdl1oH_o4g&origin=debutantedebris.blogspot.com" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

Rolex opens in Belgrade largest store in Central Europe

Petite Geneve Group , the pioneers of luxury watches and jewelry retail in Serbia for over a decade, inaugurated earlier this week, in Bel...

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