The Minister of Finance, Sinisa Mali, announced a plan according to which the average salary in 2025 in Serbia will be 900 euros, and the average pension 400 euros.
“We will invest around 14 billion euros in the next five years in infrastructure, health system, education, water supply and sewerage and everything that will raise the standard and our economy.”
The plan is for the average salary in Serbia to be 900 euros in 2025, and the average pension to be around 400 euros, and that is absolutely possible, and we have that money partially provided, said Mali as a guest on B92 Television.
The Minister reminded that Serbia achieved a growth rate of five percent in the first quarter of this year, while at the same time the decline in the Eurozone was 3.3 percent.
He stated that the growth rate in January this year was 6.5 percent, and, as he said, if the crisis had not happened, the first quarter would have ended with growth above six percent.
“Serbia will achieve the best results in Europe this year, because the projections of both the IMF and the World Bank are that we are in a more favorable position than the others.” I am sure that this year we can be at a positive zero,” stated Mali and pointed out that the opening of several factories is expected in the coming days, because foreign investors do not give up investing.
He stated that Serbia’s foreign exchange reserves are 13.5 billion euros, the unemployment rate has been reduced to 10 percent, and public debt and finances are stable.
The minister announced that another meeting would be held on Tuesday with representatives of the sectors most affected by the coronavirus epidemic, namely catering, transport and logistics.
He added that within ten days, additional measures will be issued to encourage new employment, which was recently announced by President Aleksandar Vucic, so that, above all, young people who returned from abroad to Serbia due to the pandemic, which previously employed and kept in the country, and those who lost their jobs received new employment.
Mali said, as stated in the statement, that due to the coronavirus, the realization of the “Serbia 2025” project was postponed for several months, but that the plan is the same.
To the criticism that the measure of help of 100 euros may be populist, Mali says that the measure is exclusively economic, that the measure was implemented by the USA and Singapore, the most developed countries in the world.
He reminded that this is just one of the economic measures of the package worth 5.1 billion euros, which makes 11 percent of our GDP, BizLife reports.
