October 9 (SeeNews) - Serbia has achieved a record-low youth unemployment of 20.7% at the end of the first half of 2020, prime minister Ana Brnabic said.
"Serbia still has a huge problem with youth unemployment. However, at the end of the second quarter of this year, youth unemployment reached 20.7% and that is a record-low unemployment," Brnabic said in a video file posted on the website of Tanjug news agency on Thursday.
Youth unemployment is declining gradually, to 25.5% at the end of 2019 from 29.1% in December 2018, Brnabic told a news conference on the launch of a government programme encouraging companies to hire young people.
The 1 billion dinars ($10 million/8.5 million euro) programme will provide financing to companies offering training to young people up to 30 years old.
(1 euro = 117.587 dinars)