Photo: Serbian Government/Pedja Vuckovic
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said during the Western Balkans Investment Summit in London, on Feb. 26, that Serbia had been offering to investors increasingly favorable terms of doing business, adding that she wanted Serbia to be driven by innovation.
“Serbia wants to be an economy of importance for the entire Western Balkan region,” the prime minster said during the Summit hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
“Serbia has an extraordinary work force, and we are investing in education more than ever before, while developing the infrastructure as well,” the prime minster was quoted as saying by the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS). Brnabic recalled that according to a report by the Financial Times, Serbia was the right place to invest in science, biotechnology and information technologies.
The EBRD president, Odile Renaud-Basso said that a there’s still a gap between the Western Balkans and the European Union, and that it might take between 40 and 70 years to bridge it.
President of the European Council Charles Michel said that regional integration would step up integration into the EU market, with a note that it’s a competitive market the Western Balkans needed to prepare themselves for.
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