State TV: PM cancels visits to EU and US in protest

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian Prime Minister-designate Aleksandar Vucic has canceled his visit to Brussels and separate talks with American officials after reports in a pro-government newspaper that the EU and U.S. ambassadors to Serbia are fueling street protests against his rule, the state TV said Monday.

Vucic, a former ultranationalist turned pro-EU reformer, was scheduled to travel later this month to Brussels for the formal opening of EU membership talks and to the U.S. on an inaugural Air Serbia flight to New York where he was to hold bilateral talks with American officials.