Foreign investments in Serbia in first two months of 2018 amount to EUR 436.9 million – Public debt drops to 59.4% of GDP

Foreign direct investments in Serbia in the first two months of 2018 amounted to EUR 436.9 million, which is 21.8% more than in the same period last year, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said yesterday.

At the meeting of the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED) said that the increase amounted to around EUR 80 million.

She reminded that direct foreign investments had amounted to EUR 2.6 billion in 2016, a “historical success”, as she called it.

– It's important for those results to continue in 2018 – Brnabic pointed out.

Last year, as she said, agreements on the allocation of incentives from the budget for 36 projects in the amount of EUR 50 million were signed, and more than half of those projects are carried out by local companies.

The prime minister said that, according to the new data, the public debt of Serbia had dropped to 59.4% of the gross domestic product (GDP), as opposed to 71.9% at the end of 2017.

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