Dušan Vujović

New decisions on the maximum number of public sector employees will be made by the end of this year as a starting basis for 2017.

Serbian Minister of Finance Dusan Vujovic said this on Monday.

BELGRADE - The European Investment Bank (EIB) is interested in development of public-private partnerships in Serbia, as well as in further development of regional projects and roads as part of the European transport network, the head of the EIB Regional Office for the Western Balkans, Dubravka Negre, said Monday at a meeting with Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic.

Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic is in Brussels on Wednesday for a meeting with EU finance ministers, Tanjug has reported.

They will "discuss six European Commission recommendations aimed at improving Serbia's economic policy."

VIENNA - Serbia has achieved significant progress in development of institutions to ensure reliable financial reporting, Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said in Vienna on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have praised Serbia's fiscal consolidation and reforms but, regardless of who wins the elections and becomes part of the new government, continuing the three-year reform programme will remain Serbia's obligation, Minister of Finance Dusan Vujovic said Monday.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) "expects Serbia to continue to be fully committed to carrying out the reforms it has started."

This is what the president of the financial institution, Suma Chakrabarti, said at a meeting with Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic in Washington.

The fiscal results in the first three months of 2016 are already better than planned, Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said on Tuesday.

Despite unforeseen expenditures, including the cost of early parliamentary elections, the central government deficit amounted to RSD 8.9 billion in Q1 - less than a quarter of the RSD 62 billion planned, he said.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will attend a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) investment summit in London on Monday.

With him will be Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic, who is also minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, and Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic.

Serbia's Prime Minister has belatedly axed his controversial defence minister, Branislav Gasic, who has been in the middle of controversy since early December when he told reporter Zlatija Labovic from TV B92, who had knelt down to get out of the way of her cameraman at a press event: "I love female journalists who get down on their knees easily."

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has authorized Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic to perform the duties of the defense minister until a new one has been elected.

Earlier on Saturday, Vucic signed a proposal to dismiss Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic and sent it to the National Assembly, his cabinet confirmed.