"Prices won't increase this year"

Minister for Trade and Services Slobodan Milosavljević says there is "not a single reason" why prices should go up in Serbia.

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 10.08.2009.

09:50

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Minister for Trade and Services Slobodan Milosavljevic says there is "not a single reason" why prices should go up in Serbia. He explained this by saying that the reduced purchasing power and good yield of cereals, with a significant agricultural surplus, guarantee stable prices until the end of the year. "Prices won't increase this year" "When I had predicted deflation for the second half of this year, there were doubts. Nevertheless, we are witness that this has indeed happened. In comparison with the average of the European Union, prices of food articles and non-alcoholic drinks are lower by 18 percent in Serbia - according to the latest figures of Eurostat, the European statistics agency...," Milosavljevic said in a statement for Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, published on Monday. The Eurostat analysis has shown that jointly, prices of food, drink, tobacco, clothing, electronics, and transportation vehicles in Serbia are lower by 42 percent than the EU average, the minister said. Serbia needs a new formula for forming fuel prices and negotiations on this have already begun, he said, announcing that gasoline will not be the most expensive in this part of Europe as of mid-2010. "It is absolutely unacceptable that [gasoline] prices should be lower in neighboring countries, where there is no refinery owner even remotely as powerful as our Russian partner," the minister said.

"Prices won't increase this year"

"When I had predicted deflation for the second half of this year, there were doubts. Nevertheless, we are witness that this has indeed happened. In comparison with the average of the European Union, prices of food articles and non-alcoholic drinks are lower by 18 percent in Serbia - according to the latest figures of Eurostat, the European statistics agency...," Milosavljević said in a statement for Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, published on Monday.

The Eurostat analysis has shown that jointly, prices of food, drink, tobacco, clothing, electronics, and transportation vehicles in Serbia are lower by 42 percent than the EU average, the minister said.

Serbia needs a new formula for forming fuel prices and negotiations on this have already begun, he said, announcing that gasoline will not be the most expensive in this part of Europe as of mid-2010.

"It is absolutely unacceptable that [gasoline] prices should be lower in neighboring countries, where there is no refinery owner even remotely as powerful as our Russian partner," the minister said.

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