Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladjan Dinkic, Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas and President of the Managing Board of VDL company Vim van der Leg signed the Memorandum of understanding between Serbia and this Dutch company today.

Serbian Minister of Economy, Mladjan Dinkic, announced today that the Government of Serbia shall adopt  today Ordinance on Approving Subsidized Consumer Credits for Purchasing Domestically Produced Computers. Dinkic has during visit to the factory Comtrade from Belgrade  said that the monthly installment of those  credits for purchasing basic computer configuration shall be between 200 and 300 dinars during the first year, and in the second and third year from 2,200 and 3,000 dinars respectively.

Representatives of workers who didn’t move to Fiat factory in Kragujevac, and who have remained in factory  „Zastava automobili“ have threatened that they  would block that factory, because from April 60 percents of salary shall be paid to the workers who do not come to work and are not engaged in work.

Prime Minister in the Government of Serbia and Minister of Economy and Regional Development, Mladjan Dinkic, has suggested  today during the visit to the company Jastrebac in Nis, that the  Government of Serbia shall secure a special  program  for discount during purchase of pumps produced by this company, in order to secure job for workers and regular payment of salaries.

Thanks to export of buses into European Union, new 70 work places have been opened in Neobus.  Production of 150 buses per year for the period of  3 years, which has been agreed last year with Dutch company VDL has been supported by the Ministry of Economy with the Development Fund credit amounting to  2.6 million euros for procurement of intermediates and modernization of equipment.  Prime Minister Dinkic says that the main objective is opening new work places and securing safe job to the existing workers.

For less than a month since the Government of Serbia has adopted additional Program of Subsidized Dinar Credits for Citizens, the objective of which is increase of purchasing power, stimulating domestic demand and production, the banks have approved  5,745 cash credits in dinars value of around  900 million dinars and  483 consumer credits in dinars, value of around  14.8 million dinars

Prime Minister in the Government of Serbia, Mladjan Dinkic, signed  today in Leskovac contracts with investors  which would in the next period employ more than 2,000 workers and invest 31 million euros in seven municipalities throughout Serbia.