Serbia's opposition calls for dismissal of Environment Minister

In the last two weeks, Serbia and Belgarde were among the worst polluted places in Europe and the world.

SzS also demanded that the city's Mayor Zoran Radojicic declare a state of emergency because of the pollution.

 "We demand Trivan's ouster, as well as of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency Filip Radovic and the director of the City's Institute for Public Health Dusanka Matijevic," Nikola Jovanovic of the SzS said in a statement.

He added that it was unacceptable that neither republic nor city authorities did anything and ignore the situation which had a direct and damaging effect on the population.

"It's especially tragic that three main thermal power plants don't have desulphurization filters, while the Government allocates money – enough for solving the problem – for a stadium instead," Jovanovic said.

The Environment Ministry said last week that 2.4 billion Euro needed to reduce air pollution

He warned that the pollution was so high also because of individual heating and the temperature inversion, as well as because of slow traffic in the city due to "catastrophic reconstruction of the roads in Belgrade."

SzS city branch will organise a public debate on air pollution in Belgrade on Thursday and propose measures for solving the problem.