Lazar Krstic

Public administration employs 500k people - minister

KRAGUJEVAC -- The government will not carry out its "rationalization" of the public administration in a sudden manner, Minister Kori Udovicki has said.

"Dacic could be here more often," PM tells cabinet session

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday chaired the 100th meeting of his cabinet and remarked that Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic "could attend more often despite his trips."

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) approving the latest arrangement with Serbia was a clear signal that our country was on the right and safe track.

Economy and finance ministries to merge again - daily

BELGRADE -- A cabinet reshuffle is "already on the horizon" writes a Belgrade-based daily, adding that ministries of finance and economy will once again be merged into one.

PM to nominate Chamber of Commerce head for economy minister

BELGRADE -- B92 has learned that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić plans to nominate Željko Serić as candidate for Serbia's new minister of economy.

The cabinet post has been vacant since Dušan Vujović took over the finance portfolio on August 4, after the resignation of Lazar Krstić in July.

BELGRADE – The Serbian parliament confirmed Dusan Vujovic’s resignation from the post of economy minister on August 4 and elected him as new minister of finance on the same day and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic now has 15 days to put forward a new candidate to fill the vacant post.

The deadline to put forward the new economy minister candidate expires on August 19.

Serbia's new Finance Minister, Dusan Vujovic, has presented a plan for the country's economic revival, based on stricter control of public spending, the fight against the "grey" economy, better rates of tax collection and reducing the costs of public companies.

Parliament elects new finance minister

BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament on Monday elected Dušan Vujović to the position of the new finance minister with 175 votes in favor and nine against.

The new finance minister was sworn in during the same session.

PM: We'll overcome crisis in two years

BELGRADE -- Serbia will overcome the crisis "in two years," and due past irresponsible behavior the country is on track to go bankrupt in six months, says Aleksandar Vučić.

Nebojsa Ciric is likely to become Serbia's new Economy Minister, Balkan Insight has learned from a source in the ruling Progressive Party.

Short bio

Born in 1974 in the eastern town of Bor, he moved to Belgrade to go to mathematical high school. In 1996, he finished studies at the London School of Economics, LSE.