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V.I.P. Daily News Report
Issue number: 4879, Friday, June 15, 2012
Nikolic Suggests Prime Minister to Conduct Negotiations with Pristina
Stefanovic: Nikolic's initiative constitutes effort to shift
responsibility: Borislav Stefanovic, the chief negotiator in the
dialogue with Pristina, has said that Nikolic's initiative, although
essentially not a bad idea, constitutes an effort to shift responsibility
for a sensitive political issue onto somebody else.
EU not asking Serbia to recognize Kosovo: Nikolic said that he heard from his partners in talks in Brussels that the European Union will never ask Serbia to recognize Kosovo as an independent state and that he believes them when they say so.
Tanjug: Brussels satisfied with Nikolic's visit: Brussels considers Nikolic's first visit to be a success, the state Tanjug news agency reported, quoting an unnamed official of the European Commission that attended Nikolic's meeting with Ashton.
Kosovo Granted Visa Liberalization Roadmap EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom presented a visa liberalization roadmap in Brussels on Thursday to Kosovo Minister for European Integration Fllora Citaku, news agencies reported.
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Weekly Economic Bulletin
Issue number: 815 Friday, June 15, 2012
Serbian Privatizations from
the Auditors' Viewpoint
The position of the buyers of the capital of socially-owned
companies, who were able to obtain information about the
financial position of the subject of privatization in the
company's prospectus, was most often tantamount to "taking
the owners word" when buying a second-half automobile. The
ethical codex of professional accountants allows someone
who has seen a privatization with his own eyes to say: most
important is health, and then the auditing of financial reports,
writes Zvezdan Božinović, of LB-Rev, for the monthly
magazine Business & Finance.
When the Creditor Knocks on the Door
Another method of privatization – which was applied in the
case of state-owned and socially-owned companies of
considerable size or strategic importance – is formulated
through the tender process. The technology of carrying out the
privatization considerably differed from the one applied in an
auction privatization, but the creativity of the management of
the subject of privatization was equally "commendable".
TOPIC OF THE ISSUE: Serbian privatization From
the Auditor's Viewpoint;
FACTS &FIGURES: Finance Ministry: Serbia
not Threatened by Bankruptcy;
ANALYSIS: Current Trends (IV)
BANKS: Savings & Households Statistics;
FUNDS: Performance in 2011;
STATISTICS: Average Wages in Serbia: April
2012;
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Foreign Trade Analysis
Issue number:5 Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Exports from Serbia to Slovenia
In the period 2009 – 2011 there was a growing trend of the sale of the goods from Serbia on
the Slovenian market. Therefore, at the beginning of the abovementioned period the export
of almost 344 million USD grew to 526 million USD by the end of this period and was
higher by even 52.9%. If compared to the data from 2010, the export from Serbia to
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Slovenia grew by as much as 23.5%. Therefore, it is obvious that there is a slowdown in the
positive pace of the sale of the goods from Serbia to Slovenian market (Table 1).
Imports from Slovenia to Serbia
Upon a slight reduction in the import from Slovenia in 2010, in comparison to the data in 2009,
from 526 million USD to 508.5 million USD, in 2011 there was recorded a growth in the imports
from Slovenian market. Therefore, the import of goods from Slovenia in 2011 reached the value
of 595.5 million USD and was higher by 17.2% than it was a year before, in other words, it was
higher by 13.2% if compared to the same period of 2009 (Table 2).
Serbia's foreign trade balance in commodity trade with Slovenia
Serbia keeps recording the trade deficit in the foreign trade exchange with Slovenia. Serbia has
recorded the most negative balance in the foreign trade with Slovenia for the last three years
now, where in 2009 it was -182.2 million USD. In 2011 the foreign trade deficit was reduced to
69.4 million USD, and in 2012 the deficit started again to be a slightly higher in the foreign trade
exchange with the Slovenian market (Table 3).
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