Dušan Vujović

IMF mission head James Roaf said on Tuesday, during his meeting with President Aleksandar Vucic, that the fiscal results of Serbia's budget were "excellent."

The EU has praised Serbia's economic growth, outlining challenges regarding structural reforms and competitiveness.

This has been announced by the EU Delegation to Serbia and the Finance Ministry, Tanjug reported.

The name of Serbia's new prime minister will be known on June 12, Vecernje Novosti is reporting on Monday, citing "sources close to the ruling coalition."

BELGRADE - The government has been successful in curbing the grey economy, while there is noticeable improvement in implementation of control, inspection and motivating everyone to abide by the law and pay their taxes, Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said Wednesday.

Serbian bookmakers rate Ivica Dacic, leader of the junior partner in the ruling coalition, as the most likely man to replace the current Prime Minister and soon-to-be President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, who won the presidential elections on April 2.

Dacic is the bookies' favourite by a wide advantage compared to the second-ranking Minister of Finance, Dusan Vujovic.  

WASHINGTON - The positive marks Serbia has received for visible economic improvement are very encouraging, International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation head James Roaf said at a meeting with Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic in Washington Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic will this week attend the 2017 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, his ministry announced Tuesday.

The meetings, officially slated for April 20-23, will bring together central bank governors, finance ministers and representatives of major financial institutions.

BELGRADE - Serbia is accelerating its economic growth, and the objective is to achieve a 4 pct growth rate in the period to come, says Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic.

"We are projecting 3 pct growth for this year, 3.5 pct for the next two years and 4 pct for the period after that," Vujovic said at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (PKS).

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.

Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic "has the greatest chance of replacing Aleksandar Vucic as prime minister."

Belgade-based Danas is reporting this on Friday, citing unnamed sources from Vucic's ruling SNS party.