Next year could be worse than 2014 - unions

There are many good family businesses in Serbia that can grow if bureaucracy is reduced and they can get some affordable finance. The labor law amendments help but there is a lot more to do to reduce state obstructions to these firms and to open finance for them. Hopefully trade unions will start being constructive but since most of their members are government employees it is likely that they will refuse to negotiate and only try to stop reforms in the public administration, where many of their members are paid for doing little or nothing. Serbia needs to create private sector jobs for our many smart young people before they all emigrate.

is Serbia out of their minds are what ? 1 day they say its going to be a great year and jobs on the rise the next day they say its going to be worse... all the former Yugoslavian nations are not so smart....they say one thing 1 day and another thing the next....I think you should all get together again and maybe you will be like the 80s again...with smarts and money and everything before America made you all fight :)

Perhaps they should ask advice from the Oracle of Delphi on the economic outcome for 2015 because I’m sure they would come out with a clearer answer than the politicians who say on one hand next year will be great then the next day everyone is doomed.
Having said this, the entire world is heading for a slow down, some more than others. So Serbia is not an island.

is Serbia out of their minds are what ? 1 day they say its going to be a great year and jobs on the rise the next day they say its going to be worse... all the former Yugoslavian nations are not so smart....they say one thing 1 day and another thing the next....I think you should all get together again and maybe you will be like the 80s again...with smarts and money and everything before America made you all fight :)

Perhaps they should ask advice from the Oracle of Delphi on the economic outcome for 2015 because I’m sure they would come out with a clearer answer than the politicians who say on one hand next year will be great then the next day everyone is doomed.
Having said this, the entire world is heading for a slow down, some more than others. So Serbia is not an island.

There are many good family businesses in Serbia that can grow if bureaucracy is reduced and they can get some affordable finance. The labor law amendments help but there is a lot more to do to reduce state obstructions to these firms and to open finance for them. Hopefully trade unions will start being constructive but since most of their members are government employees it is likely that they will refuse to negotiate and only try to stop reforms in the public administration, where many of their members are paid for doing little or nothing. Serbia needs to create private sector jobs for our many smart young people before they all emigrate.