Kopaonik

KOPAONIK - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Wednesday he expected Serbia to move 10 to 15 positions up in the World Bank's Doing Business list in 2017.

This is a result of reforms that began after 2014, the year when the country was hit by the worst-ever floods, he said at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

Vucic: Regional stability required for more investments

KOPAONIK - Serbia has made very good progress in fiscal consolidation, but the issue of state-owned and strategic enterprises needs to be solved to catapult Serbia to even faster economic growth, Ellen Goldstein, World Bank country director for the Western Balkans, said Tuesday.

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.

BELGRADE - Stability is the key word for all participants and stakeholders of public and political life, as well as the key characteristic of what has been done in reform activities over the past three years, says National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic.

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.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic expects Serbia move "10 or 15" places up on World Bank’s Doing Business List this year.

Addressing the Kopaonik Business Forum, Vucic said this was "the result of reforms that started after 2014 and the greatest floods in Serbia’s history."

The Kopaonik Business Forum's ambassadors' panel has seen "a diplomatic skirmish" between top Russian and US diplomats posted in Serbia, Tanjug is reporting.

US Ambassador Kyle Scott first appraised that Russia and his country share the same interests on some issues, but diverge on others.

Stability is the key word for all participants and stakeholders of public and political life, says National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic.

It is also "the key characteristic of what has been done in reform activities over the past three years," she told the Kopaonik Business Forum.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will for the first time present the Transition Report 2016-17 at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

The gathering will take place March 7-9 in the Serbian mountain resort.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government has set up a working group headed by Defence Minister Zoran Djordjevic to deal with normalisation of civilian air traffic over the Kosovo and Metohija province, including reintroduction of flights from Belgrade to Pristina, the Defence Ministry announced in a statement.