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Serbia’s government has sent parliament three draft laws for dinar loans for the Belgrade–Zrenjanin–Novi Sad motorway. 021 gives caps of 13 billion dinars from UniCredit Bank Srbija, 5 billion from Banca Intesa and 10 billion from NLB Komercijalna banka—28 billion in total; the project's 2026 budget borrowing ceiling is 35 billion dinars.
Low Danube water near Novi Sad has exposed remains of the Island Redoubt, a late-17th-century fortification that protected Petrovaradin Fortress, N1 reports. Shallow water is also hampering boats and barges: fuel and grain move in smaller loads or shift to more expensive road and rail transport.
Students in blockade announced door-to-door outreach and street stands in several cities. The schedule lists Kaluđerica on 7–9 August, Vračar on 8 and 9 August, and Banjica, Zemun, Rušanj, Borča and Knez Mihailova on 8 August; Detelinara in Novi Sad is listed for 8 and 9 August.
The National Employment Service has published a vacancy for the director of Novi Sad's Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Gymnasium. Parents say the document list omits an equality commissioner's certificate that no discriminatory conduct has been established against the candidate, and therefore expect the vacancy to be annulled. This is their legal assessment, not a decision already taken.
The provincial emergency headquarters has banned users from drawing water from the Danube–Tisa–Danube system in the South Bačka, North Bačka and West Bačka districts. N1 says the level at the Bezdan 2 pumping station reached −164 cm on 3 August and RHMZ expects a further fall; 021 also reports that four vessels ran aground near Bogojevo and Bezdan, with crews safe.
At Freedom Square in Novi Sad, the Women for Change activist group held eight minutes of silence for eight women killed in Serbia since the start of the year. The action followed three femicides in the previous ten days; participants called for more effective protection of women and highlighted the circulation of footage of a killing near Bor on social media.
