SNS promises "big investments" in agriculture

Serb Progressive Party (SNS) leader Tomislav Nikolic said today that if his party gains power, it will set aside major funds for the development of agriculture. "If we get villages back on their feet, we will do the same with towns. Because life in the villages has become unbearable, everyone has escaped to towns. The unemployed in the city live better than people working the land in villages," the opposition leader said while campaigning in the the municipality of Ub. SNS promises "big investments" in agriculture We need to start from zero, that is why we will invest a lot of the country's resources into agriculture, added Nikolic. According to him, foreign investors complain about numerous bureaucratic procedures during which "many civil servants ask them for bribes". The SNS leader reaffirmed his support for EU accession, but said the road to the EU is long and in the meantime, Serbia must live and work or else it "will not have anything to take it to the EU". General elections will be held in Serbia on May 6. The Progressives currently poll as the country's most popular party. Nikolic gets his hands dirty in a greenhouse near Ub on Tuesday (Tanjug) Tanjug

SNS promises "big investments" in agriculture

We need to start from zero, that is why we will invest a lot of the country's resources into agriculture, added Nikolić.

According to him, foreign investors complain about numerous bureaucratic procedures during which "many civil servants ask them for bribes".

The SNS leader reaffirmed his support for EU accession, but said the road to the EU is long and in the meantime, Serbia must live and work or else it "will not have anything to take it to the EU".

General elections will be held in Serbia on May 6. The Progressives currently poll as the country's most popular party.