Serbia - Media Review – November 26

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- Serbia’s foreign debt totals 574 euro per capita, down from 585 euro at the end of 2008, Central Bank Governor Radovan Jelasic said. Serbia's foreign debt rose to 21.78 billion euro at the end of September from 21.73 billion euro a month earlier, preliminary figures from the country's central bank showed earlier this month.

- The government in Belgrade will sign an annex to its contract with Italy’s Fiat for the forming of a joint venture in December, which will define the automaker’s business plan for the production of a new car model in Kragujevac, in central Serbia, the town's mayor, Veroljub Stevanovic, said.

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- Serbia’s economy may grow by between three and four percent next year, instead of the forecast 1.5%, if the infrastructure projects, and particularly EU-defined Corridor X, are implemented as planned, Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic said. The latest projection by the International Monetary Fund puts Serbia’s economic growth at 1.5% next year.

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