Mali with Head of EU Delegation: Next Year’s Budget Developmental with Elements of Precaution for Crisis Responses

Serbia is continuing with investments in infrastructure and capital projects that further incite the growth of the GDP, said the Serbian finance minister, Sinisa Mali, during his meeting with the head of the EU Delegation, Emanuele Giaufret, and added that Serbia remained dedicated to structural reforms as an important part of the new arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

In that sense, the reform of the energy sector is the most important, he said and reminded that new fiscal rules had been agreed with the IMF and that the rules were part of the amendments to the Law on the Budget System, which would be put before the parliament in December, it is said on the website of the Government of Serbia.

Mali pointed out that Serbia had remained economically stable despite the crisis which had been going on for years back and that the budget for 2023 would be developmental, balanced and socially oriented, with elements of precaution for crisis responses.

Giaufret noted that the European Union had set aside EUR 165 million for Serbia in order to overcome the energy crisis, as part of the package of energy support for the Western Balkans.

Vlada Republike Srbije

Ministarstvo finansija Republike Srbije

Delegacija Evropske unije u Republici Srbiji Beograd

Međunarodni monetarni fond - MMF Beograd

Siniša Mali

Emanuele Giaufret

Law on the Budget System

energy crisis

energy support