The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, said today that the Government has created the conditions for a permanent increase in pensions and salaries for a large number of employees in the public sector who bore the greatest burden of savings. "We are preparing to pay a one-time aid of 5.000 dinars to support pensioners, and from January 1 next year to increase their pensions by five percent," said Brnabić at the Economic Summit of Serbia in Belgrade. She added that the increase in pensions in the previous two years with the announced increase means that 90 percent of pensioners in Serbia will have higher pensions than before 2014, that is, before fiscal consolidation measures were initiated. Brnabić stated that salaries in the public sector for the largest number of employees will be increased by 10 percent and she added that attention was paid primarily to the education and health sectors, but also to the security services, where employees in those areas will also have their salaries increased. The Prime Minister of Serbia said that it was agreed that employees in the administration at the national and local levels would receive a five percent increase in order to encourage them to work better. She added that the state wants to create conditions for the administration to work well, but also for that service not to be the most desirable place for young people to work. "Serbia now has sound foundations on which it can build sustainable, dynamic economic growth," Brnabić said, adding that the focus should therefore be on the digitization of education. She added that she is sure that Serbia will succeed in this because, as she estimated, "it has enormous potential and its own resources that will enable higher salaries, faster economic growth, but also stop the brain drain".
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