Tadić: Government will keep economic promises

Serbian President Boris Tadic is convinced that the government will manage to keep most of the economic promises given to citizens by early 2012. “The Serbian government must raise citizen’s standard of living and gross domestic product (GDP) in a more realistic way. That means that the economy needs to be restructured,” he stressed. Tadic: Government will keep economic promises The government reshuffle, according to the president, should contribute to new dynamics in the work of the state institutions and faster realization of initiated projects. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board is supposed to approve another revision of the current arrangement since the Serbian government sent the draft budget for 2011 and draft Law on Pension and Disability Insurance to parliament. According to Tadic, the government should keep most of the economic promises by 2012, even though it worked during the biggest economic crisis in recent history. He also wants to see through realization of “Serbia 2020” strategy. “That’s not a sacred word, but the plan was primarily conceived so it would lead Serbia toward development, toward European integrations in a realistic way, to raise our citizens’ standard of living in a realistic way and to increase the number of employed people each year in a feasible way,” the president pointed out. “It also goes for our GDP, which means that our economy needs to be reoriented, restructured and to become export-oriented,” he explained. According to Tadic, a reshuffle should improve the government’s functionality, provided that coalition partners reach an agreement after New Year. He said that the ministers should not make statements about the government reshuffle at the moment, but that political leaders naturally had both legitimacy and right to do so. The ministers have, however, already expressed different positions on the government reshuffle. Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Oliver Dulic of the Democratic Party (DS) stated that the reshuffle was necessary as soon as possible while Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjic of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) told B92 two days ago that the government reshuffle was a waste of time. Boris Tadic (Tanjug, file)

Tadić: Government will keep economic promises

The government reshuffle, according to the president, should contribute to new dynamics in the work of the state institutions and faster realization of initiated projects.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board is supposed to approve another revision of the current arrangement since the Serbian government sent the draft budget for 2011 and draft Law on Pension and Disability Insurance to parliament.

According to Tadić, the government should keep most of the economic promises by 2012, even though it worked during the biggest economic crisis in recent history.

He also wants to see through realization of “Serbia 2020” strategy.

“That’s not a sacred word, but the plan was primarily conceived so it would lead Serbia toward development, toward European integrations in a realistic way, to raise our citizens’ standard of living in a realistic way and to increase the number of employed people each year in a feasible way,” the president pointed out.

“It also goes for our GDP, which means that our economy needs to be reoriented, restructured and to become export-oriented,” he explained.

According to Tadić, a reshuffle should improve the government’s functionality, provided that coalition partners reach an agreement after New Year.

He said that the ministers should not make statements about the government reshuffle at the moment, but that political leaders naturally had both legitimacy and right to do so.

The ministers have, however, already expressed different positions on the government reshuffle. Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Oliver Dulić of the Democratic Party (DS) stated that the reshuffle was necessary as soon as possible while Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjić of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) told B92 two days ago that the government reshuffle was a waste of time.