October 2 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Serbian media on Friday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
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- State-owned aircraft maintenance company JAT Tehnika ender their three-day strike over the failure of Serbia’s flag carrier JAT Airways to meet debt obligations. JAT Tehnika decided to end the strike, which grounded all JAT Airways planes, after being assured by Serbian Parliament Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic and the Infrastructure Ministry that part of the air carrier's debt will be repaid by Monday. JAT Tehnika officials said earlier that the debt has caused a month's delay in the payment of salaries of their employees.
- The economic growth model that Serbia followed before global financial crisis struck was wrong and has put the Balkan country into a vulnerable position, the Head of the World Bank's office in Serbia, Simon Grey, said. Citizens were spending more than they were earning, which is evident in the country’s high current account deficit, made worse by high lending growth, Grey said.
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- A 200 million euro loan that Russia may extend to Serbian state-owned railways operator may be used to finance the modernisation of railway junctions in Belgrade. An agreement for extending the loan to Zeleznice Srbije could be signed on October 20 when Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev is scheduled to visit Serbia.
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- Serbia’s projected gross domestic product will total 6,075 euro per capita in 2015 if the Balkan country joins the European Union in 2014, experts said. If Serbia doesn’t join the bloc by then its projected GDP in 2015 will amount to 5,530 euro per capita.
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