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Serbia’s engineering talent opens a new nearshore market for European heavy industry

Europe’s heavy-industrial companies are entering a difficult investment cycle. They need to modernise ageing plants, automate production, reduce energy consumption, strengthen environmental controls and...

Serbia’s electronic waste market could support a new generation of specialist recycling businesses

Serbia’s electronic-waste industry has traditionally been built around a familiar industrial equation: collect obsolete appliances, dismantle them, separate steel, copper, aluminium and plastics, and...

Serbia’s electronic waste market offers an opening for higher-value metals recovery

Serbia has a credible opportunity to establish an electronic-waste processing operation capable of recovering more value from discarded computers, telecommunications equipment and industrial electronics....

Serbia’s VAT representative offers foreign companies a faster route to market

A non-resident supplier can use a Serbian tax representative to manage VAT registration, imports, invoicing and compliance without immediately establishing a subsidiary, although the...

Large retail chains become Serbia’s default shopping channel as consolidation gathers pace

Large supermarket chains have become the dominant purchasing channel for Serbian households, with new consumer research showing that 71.5 per cent of citizens shop at...
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Serbia’s first-half budget deficit remains well below plan as June tax receipts strengthen

Serbia recorded a republican budget deficit of approximately €440 million in the first six months of 2026, significantly outperforming the government’s original fiscal timetable. The planned deficit...

Serbia’s drought exposes the long wait for Bistrica and Đerdap 3

Serbia’s deteriorating hydrology has turned two long-discussed pumped-storage projects into an immediate test of the country’s energy investment policy. RHPP Bistrica, planned at 661 MW, is...

Serbian lending accelerates as households borrow faster and companies retain heavy euro exposure

Credit growth in Serbia is becoming more broadly based, but its composition reveals two different lending cycles. Household borrowing is expanding rapidly through cash...

Serbia’s €3bn bond operation extends maturities but raises the price of sovereign funding

Serbia used a three-part international bond transaction in the spring of 2026 to refinance near-term liabilities, extend the maturity of its debt and broaden...

Serbia’s services surplus strengthens as technology and business exports offset a widening travel bill

Serbia’s external position is increasingly being supported by services rather than goods, with information technology, professional services and transport producing a growing surplus even...
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