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(9 years ago)A 5 per cent increase in pensions will be implemented in Serbia starting on January 1st, while public sector wages will increase ten per cent. Prime Minister Anna Brnabiq announced this Saturday in the town of Krushevci, during a press conference held following her cabinet's session organised for [...]
Prime Minister Anna Brnabiq announced this Saturday in the town of Krushevci, during a press conference held after her cabinet's session organised to mark the first 100 days since Serbia's prime minister was elected, reports “b92”, the Periscope broadcast.
Presenting the government's results, she said the “excellent results in the field of state ark” allowed for this permanent pension and wage increases.
In Serbia, in 2014, a nominal reduction in ten percent was assigned, along with a progressive decline in nominal pensions (at a 22 percent rate for pensions between 25,000 and 40,000 dinars and 25 percent higher). Since then, pensions and public sector salaries have increased in two cases.
Speaking in Krusevc, Ana Brnabiq said the Serbian government in the first 100 days “pledged that it could continue to move courageously in the direction appointed by the previous government” and “promised modernisation, digitisation and investments in education”, the government announced.
The prime minister added that fiscal consolidation has continued, that the public debt in late September was 65.4 per cent of GDP, which was lower for 7.6 per cent compared to the end of 2016, and that the success was 66.5 billion.
Brnabiq recalled that the Socio-Economic Council had raised the minimum wage, which would positively influence 350,000 workers, that the seventh review of the agreement with the IMF was completed, and that Kosovo's candidacy for U n NCO and Interpol were successfully terminated.
According to her, seven new contracts with investors worth 78m euros were signed in the first 100 days of her cabinet, which will provide 2,778 new jobs.
She pointed out that foreign direct investment in the first seven months of 2017 has increased by 19.9 percent last year, while in the first eight months of this year Serbia has achieved the increase in foreign trade in goods by more than 13 percent. At the same time, the number of new employees was 5.5 percent higher than in the preceding year.
This is a signal to Chinese investors and European partners that Serbia is a reliable partner, Brnabiq stressed./Periscopi/
