The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, stated tonight that Serbia will reach Croatia for the first time by the end of the year or by the middle of 2022, as he said, in absolute amount at the rate of GDP.
“But we must not say that, because then we are the target of everyone, their media,” said Vucic as a guest in Cyrillic on TV Happy.
He says that it is not a coincidence that a campaign is being waged against him every day in the Croatian media, while there is no text about Croatian politicians in the Serbian media.
Vucic adds that Serbia came out on top from the fourth place in terms of salaries in the region.
“In December, Serbia overtook Montenegro for the first time, when we had 562 euros, and Montenegro 525 euros, BiH 504 euros, but it will really have about 470 euros, while Serbia will have a real 545 in March…,” stated Vucic.
He added that the difference will increase in favor of Serbia.
“This country has changed irreversibly,” Vucic emphasized, adding that Serbia today stands better in the economy than in football, but that he also expects that our country will be much better in football, led by Dragan Stojkovic Piksi.
He adds that Serbia is no longer a country where someone can rule by having private business and accounts abroad, as well as not building roads, hospitals and other things for their people.
Vucic is proud of everything that has been built and made in the country in the past almost 10 years, that the finances have been healed, and the losing country has been turned into a winning country.
In that sense, he again pointed out the network of roads and railways that are being built or will be built, which significantly affects the improvement of people’s quality of life.
He reiterated that in 10 months there will be an almost fast railway Belgrade – Novi Sad, which will travel 200 km per hour, so it will take half an hour from the center of Belgrade and Novi Sad.
He says that a fast railway to Nis will be built, as well as Nis – Dimitrovgrad with a speed of 120 kilometers, and the plan, he says, is to make an agreement for a railway with a speed of 120 km, through Gredelica.
“After that, we will take the train to Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki region… It will take 2.10 hours to reach the border with Northern Macedonia, six hours to Thessaloniki, faster than by car,” said Vucic.
He says that the railway to Vrsac, Resnik – Valjevo, has been renovated, the goal is to additionally revive the Bar – Belgrade railway, and he believes that the railway to Zagreb will be able to be revived.
He enumerated that works on the construction of the Nis-Plocnik highway are underway this year, that the Moravian Corridor, which connects Corridors 10 and 11, is underway, that works are underway on the construction of the Preljina-Pozega highway section, and that the Pozega-Kotroman highway will be built from Visegrad, towards the Republika Srpska and BiH, as well as “Karadjordje” through Sumadija.
Works on the Frushkogorski corridor, Novi Sad – Ruma, will soon start, the highway Belgrade – Zrenjanin will be built, as well as one northern road that would connect the northwest and northeast of the country.
He also reminded that there remains an important road from the turnoff from the highway to Pozarevac, then from Pozarevac to Veliki Gradiste and further to Golubac, Kladovo.
He announced that gas would soon be delivered to Valjevo and Vranje.
“Gas for Valjevo costs 28 million, plus 14.5 million to spread to households, a total of 43 million. We need even more in Vranje,” said Vucic and added that Turkish Teklas is looking for gas, because it wants to open another factory in the south.
Vucic also stated that there are not enough workers in Serbia, there are foreigners on every construction site, even though most of them are being built in our country.
When asked how Serbia has more money today, he answered that the reason is that the state is set to function properly.
Vucic pointed out that Serbia, with serious reforms and work, managed to provide the funds with which it completed the temple of Saint Sava, erected a monument to Stefan Nemanja.
Vucic said that Patriarch Irinej wanted to protect him and that he always asked the Russians for more money for the temple than from our state.
“I told him that we should not solve the temple of Saint Sava, and he said that Serbia does not have that money,” he recalled.
In this regard, Vucic stated that Serbia had God’s providence with the election of patriarchs, both Paul, Irinej, and now with Porphyry…
He conveyed that the late Patriarch Irinej, when the state paid the first 10 million euros, said that he was ashamed to ask if he could do more.
“I said I can’t see that a hundred generations can’t finish the Temple. It was the same with the monument to Stefan Nemanja. For all that, you need to carry out serious reforms, to work and live for it,” he explained.
Vucic added that he was angry when he saw that people who need to build in our country cannot get work visas.
“Instead of issuing visas within 24 hours, I do not understand that they have to wait for ten or more days. Someone really cares about what is being built and they say, ‘What are these Turks, the Chinese, going to do to us now… I’m not interested in that bureaucracy, I can’t stand it,” he said, RTV reports.
