Only accelerated progress can enable Serbia to catch up with Central European standards, which will take decades, while we can only try to reduce the enormous gap separating us from the Nordic nations, PM Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday.
Vucic said this after a meeting with Nordic Business Alliance representatives.
“Serbia is choosing its future today, and what part of the world and Europe it wants to belong in in the next 20, 30, 50 years – whether we want to wait and rely on welfare assistance, or rely on our own efforts to get closer to Central European nations and one day, after many years of lagging behind Northern European nations, start to reduce the development gap between us and them,” he said.
For development – which implies an average growth rate of over 3 pct over the next 5-6 years – we will need support from all Nordic countries, he said.
