World Bank Vice

WASHINGTON - Serbian First Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said Serbia would succeed in keeping its fiscal deficit below 3 pct over the course of a new three-year arrangement with the IMF and complete all planned projects.

MARRAKESH - Serbian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Wednesday he had had excellent meetings with high-ranking officials of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank as part of his attendance at the WB-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakesh.

He said the IMF and the WB had recognised the results achieved by Serbia.

World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Anna Bjerde welcomed the positive growth of Turkey's economy during the pandemic in 2020 but also warned against outcomes of the inflation trend from which the whole world has been suffering.

EU leaders meet in Brussels on Saturday afternoon to decide who will be the next President of the European Council and EU’s foreign policy chief.

Bulgaria’s caretaker PM Georgi Bliznashki has called for broad non-partisan support for the nomination of Kristalina Georgieva as the new EU’s foreign policy chief.