Kopaonik

The main message of the Kopaonik Business Forum is that structural reforms are a prerequisite for a lasting, sustainable economic growth.

President of the Serbian Association of Economists Aleksandar Vlahovic said this on Thursday.

The fifth review of Serbia's precautionary arrangement with the IMF will be the most difficult, PM Aleksandar Vucic said at the Kopaonik Business Forum.

According to him, this is the case because "some tough measures are yet to be put in place."

The 23rd edition of Kopaonik Business Forum kicked off on Tuesday with record 850 participants.

President of the Serbian Association of Economists Aleksandar Vlahovic called on companies to help people affected by floods in Serbia with donations.

"The path of easy solutions would lead Serbia into the abyss," Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday, addressing the Kopaonik Business Forum.

He added that he "will not, and has no intention to" make any compromises on the issue of "the policy of whether we're going into the future or back to the past."

The Kopaonik Business Forum will take place from March 8 to 10, it was announced on Wednesday.

It will bring together "a record number of participants - over 800 government representatives, foreign and Serbian businesspeople, diplomats, economic analysts and experts," Tanjug said.

BELGRADE - A total of 424,632 tourists visited Serbia from January to March this year, or 10 percent more compared to the same period in 2014, according to the data of the national statistics office.

KOPAONIK - Israeli companies increasingly want to invest in Serbia, which best indicates that Serbia is on a good path out of several years of economic crisis, Israel's Ambassador to Serbia Yossef Levy said.

BELGRADE - Over 233,000 skiers visited Serbia during the ski season, which is 40 percent more compared to the previous season, says Dejan Ljevnaic, CEO of the Ski Resorts of Serbia public enterprise.

BELGRADE - The First Regional Conference on Internet Economy "Nova Energija", which will be held from April 29 to May 3 on Mt. Kopaonik, will among other things present "the Estonian miracle" in e-Government.

KOPAONIK - The Winterfest Ski & Wine Festival, an event in the fields of wine production, gastronomy, and wine tourism, will start on Mt. Kopaonik on Thursday and run through Sunday.

The organizers, Interfest and MK Mountain Resort, have this year also prepared a rich program,