Kopaonik

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.

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 Serbian GDP is lower than the EU average in terms of purchasing power by 35 percent, Assistant Minister of Economy Edvard Jakopin said at the Kopaonik Business Forum on Thursday.

That is where Serbia's GDP stood regarding purchasing power in 2014 (EU-28=100) and in several previous years it was at around 35 percent, so we have a status quo, he stated.

EUR 3.5bn allocated for infrastructure still unused - EBRD

KOPAONIK -- Serbia must accelerate the realization of infrastructural projects because as many as EUR 3.5 billion allocated for these projects have not been used.

This is what Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Serbia Matteo Patrone stated on Thursday.

Public enterprises owe EUR 11 billion

KOPAONIK -- Some 740 public enterprises in Serbia owe around EUR 11 billion in total, "which underlines the urgent need to reform them," a Kopaonik Forum panel has heard.

Advisor with the Belgrade Institute of Economics Svetlana Kisic said they account for 17 percent of the total debts incurred by the Serbian economy.

KOPAONIK - Around 740 public enterprises in Serbia owe around EUR 11 billion in total, which underlines the urgent need for reforming them, it was said at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

Advisor with the Belgrade Institute of Economics Svetlana Kisic said they account for 17 percent of the total debts incurred by the Serbian economy.

KOPAONIK - Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki has said that a program to cut the number of employees in Serbia's public sector would most probably be adopted in April, and it could be anywhere between 7,000 and 15,000 in 2015.

KOPAONIK - Serbian media have no major role in implementing economic or broader societal reforms, and they have not become a forum for a debate on crucial issues and challenges of the times, Tanjug Director Branka Djukic said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a Kopaonik Business Forum panel on the role of media in reforms, she said that there are several reasons for this situation.

KOPAONIK - Business leaders in Serbia expect growth this year, despite the crisis in the Serbian and global economies, according to the results of an annual survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was conducted in Serbia for the first time.