"9,000 public administration employees are surplus"

The surplus is much higher, since at least 20 percent of state employees perform no useful function. Perhaps more important is replacing unqualified and/or unmotivated state and local government employees with young and talented Serbians. The main barriers to Serbian prosperity are a huge bureaucracy that wastes money that should go to investments in education and infrastructure and wastes citizens' and businesses' time, and the political patronage system.

The surplus is much higher, since at least 20 percent of state employees perform no useful function. Perhaps more important is replacing unqualified and/or unmotivated state and local government employees with young and talented Serbians. The main barriers to Serbian prosperity are a huge bureaucracy that wastes money that should go to investments in education and infrastructure and wastes citizens' and businesses' time, and the political patronage system.