Minister Diana Dragutinović, Interview for the Ekonomist magazine, July 24, 2008

After this year’s deficit estimated to exceed 700-800 million Euros, Serbia in the next year has a great chance to balance the budget, even to have it in the surplus, Minister of Finance Diana Dragutinović claims.

For the Ekonomist magazine, Minister states that at no cost she is to allow for expansive fiscal policy to jeopardize macroeconomic stability. Diana Dragutinović says that she will insist on saving measures on all levels, and that implies that in the next year public sector wages will grow slower against gross domestic product (GDP).

The Minister of Finance has also announced that she will stand in favour of capital gain and real, i.e. absolute rights tax ablation, and that in the course of two years capital transactions will be completely liberalized.

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