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New gov't to raise standard, complete EU reforms: Serbian PM-designate

Xinhua, August 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Serbian Prime Minister-designate Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday the new government will work to raise people's living standard, while the growth of investments will directly depend of EU accession.

Vucic, the prime minister in the former government (2014-2016), explained to MPs in a 7-hour speech key issues of the new government program that he wrote in the past several months, stressing that "former government achieved stability while the new one will bring progress to the country".

Speaking at the special session of Serbian National Assembly, Vucic told MPs that the key aim of this government will be to raise salaries in public sectors including policemen, soldiers, social and health workers, but that the prosperity will directly depend on the progress in European integration and investments coming from the EU.

He said that 72 percent of all investments in Serbia in 2015 came from the EU, worth 1.53 billion euros (about 1.67 billion U.S. dollars), and that the further progress towards full EU membership is a strategic goal for the Serbian government.

"Serbia has so far achieved growth of GDP thanks to greater export and investments, but the growth of investments in future will directly depend of the pace of Serbia's progress in EU accession," Vucic said. Endit