KOPAONIK

KOPAONIK - Serbia's public debt-to-GDP ratio is on a downward trajectory and we are on the verge of reducing it to below 70 pct, Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said Tuesday.

"We thought we would never get below 70 pct, but now... our projection is that will be at the Maastricht level of 60 pct by 2020," Vujovic said at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

KOPAONIK - Serbian Association of Economists President Aleksandar Vlahovic expects the 2017 Kopaonik Business Forum to be the most successful ever, and that its conclusions will be seriously considered by the government and the National Bank of Serbia.

KOPAONIK- The total of EUR 78.6 million will be allocated for research and innovation in the scope of the EU's Horizon 2020, and owner at EU Projects PCM's Vladimir Pandurov invited companies in Serbia dealing with digital marketing to engage in a race to obtain EU funds.

KOPAONIK - Israeli companies increasingly want to invest in Serbia, which best indicates that Serbia is on a good path out of several years of economic crisis, Israel's Ambassador to Serbia Yossef Levy said.

KOPAONIK - The Winterfest Ski & Wine Festival, an event in the fields of wine production, gastronomy, and wine tourism, will start on Mt. Kopaonik on Thursday and run through Sunday.

The organizers, Interfest and MK Mountain Resort, have this year also prepared a rich program,

KOPAONIK - Mt Kopaonik has hosted the Snowboard Europa Cup, with Yekaterina Kosova (Russia), Lea Jugovac (Croatia) and Angelina Milutinovic (Serbia) winning the women's Slope Style event, and Arturus Cukudre (Lithuania), Petar Gosharkov (Bulgaria) and Dusan Kriz (Czech Republic) the winners of the men's event.

"Restructuring of energy enterprises launched"

KOPAONIK -- Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) public enterprise should adopt a financial consolidation plan by March 31, Energy Minister Aleksandar Antic has said.

Speaking on Thursday on the last day of the Kopaonik Business Forum, he announced EPS would then it will be "reorganized into two companies by July 1."

KOPAONIK - The public enterprise Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) is expected to adopt a financial consolidation plan by March 31, and then it will be reorganized into two companies by July 1, Energy Minister Aleksandar Antic said on Thursday.

KOPAONIK - Businessmen in Serbia are very interested in public-private partnership (PPP), according to participants in the 22th edition of the Kopaonik Business Forum.

KOPAONIK - The car manufacturer Fiat Automobiles of Serbia (FAS), petrochemicals producer HIP-Petrohemija, and electronic car-parts maker Yura Corporation are the three biggest net exporters in Serbia, according to a survey on Serbia's top 100 exporters and importers.