Vucic: We will get an investment rating by the end of the year

The president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has announced that, by the end of the year, Serbia will get “an investment rating” and that it has EUR 5.5 billion on its account.

He added that “the state will work the whole summer on making sure that there is enough petrol, diesel fuel, water, electricity” with which, as he said, there are plenty of problems, as well as all the other consumables.

– We are asking people to have understanding for the state. We can’t have salaries like Germany has, but we are reducing the difference and if we do so every year, the difference will be smaller – Vucic said on TV Pink.

Regarding his talks with the European officials about the growth plan, Vucic said that it was not an issue whether, by the end of the year, Serbia would get 120 or 130 million euros, and that it was a respectable amount of money, but that it wasn’t a decisive amount for a country like Serbia.

– That is the kind of money for somebody who is five times smaller, for us it is much more important what we talked about with president Michel (Charles, the president of the European Council), which is for them to tell us what we have to do from those four items and how to get closer to solving other problems, on our way to the single European market – he said.

Predsedništvo Republike Srbije

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Aleksandar Vučić

investment rating

Western Balkans growth plan