Budget

Budget allocation

03.march 2026 S. Ć.

Ministry of Culture: 138,5 million dinars for Hilandar

For this year's work on the Hilandar monastery, the Ministry of Culture will allocate 138,5 million dinars, and then as much as will be needed to start the work on the depot

Public Debt

10.February 2026. KS

There is no lying in Vranje, there is - a big debt

The total public debt of local governments in Serbia at the end of last year was 48 billion dinars. Vranje is by far the biggest debtor in the south of the country, and how is it in other parts

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić

Economy

14.January 2026 IN THE

New economy: The IMF introduces supervision over the finances of the City of Belgrade

At the request of the International Monetary Fund, the Government of Serbia accepted that the operations of the city of Belgrade and its public companies be subjected to an external audit - due to the sudden increase in debts, delayed payments and fiscal risks.

Interview

06.January 2026 Sonja Ciric

Jelena Medaković: 2025 is a warning for everyone who will decide on Bitef and Fest

The festival remake in February, the introduction of festival artistic directors, fairer distribution of the budget, are some of the announcements for 2026 by the secretary of culture of Belgrade, Jelena Medaković

Interview: Nikola Jovanović

25.December 2025 Danilo Savic

Why Belgrade is rapidly deteriorating

"Every social measure is financed by reducing capital investments, not by reducing corruption or by making the administration cheaper and more efficient. Expenditures in the budget for the bureaucracy are 27,1 billion dinars, which is about 14 percent of the total budget. That is a record! The administration has become more expensive, and that means higher prices for utilities and property taxes. The payment to transporters from the budget for next year is around 400 million euros, another infamous record."

Budget of the City of Belgrade

22.December 2025 KS

Simić: And the new budget of Belgrade is a tool for extracting money into private pockets

Councilors of the Belgrade City Assembly adopted the budget for 2026. While the councilors of the ruling coalition praise him, the councilor of the Movement of Free Citizens, Stefan Simić, tells "Vreme" that the government has once again created a platform for extracting money into private pockets.

Economy

19.December 2025 IN THE

Capital witchcraft projects: Funds for the Kalenić Market as for the Main Bus Station

For the extension of the Kalenić market, which is more like an installation, 3,08 billion dinars will be spent from the city budget in the next three years, of which 1,17 billion will be spent in the next year, CLS said.

Interview: Nikola Radin

18.December 2025 Filip Mirilović

Budget of Belgrade - ATM for the privileged

From the auditing point of view, the biggest failure in the management of the city in the last few years is the absence of a functional management system. There is no clear and consistent connection between set goals, planning and actual spending of budget funds. The performance is almost not measured at all, it is not monitored whether the spent money produced the expected results, and risk management is practically neglected. This is compounded by the fact that laws and regulations are violated at almost every step

Pensions

01.December 2025 Bojan Bednar

Increasing pensions: Care of the state or fight for votes?

The average pension this year amounts to 47,3 percent of the average salary, so a 12,2 percent increase in pensions will benefit pensioners, according to "Vremena" interlocutors.

Enrollment in faculties

17.October 2025 IN THE

The government made it possible for students with less than 48 points to enroll in the budget

The Government of Serbia has given its consent to the 2025/2026 school year. In 2018, exceptionally, students who did not achieve the legal minimum of 48 ECTS points will enroll at the expense of the budget, announced the Ministry of Education. The decision was made at the proposal of student organizations, with the explanation that the conditions for taking the exam last year were difficult

Expo 2027

06.October 2025 B. B.

Opposition: Scandalous bill on Expo

The opposition warns that with the proposed law on the Expo, the government plans to put the facilities at the Expo into operation without use permits

Contributions to regime dishonor

03.September 2025 Sonja Ciric

Government boycotts culture, culture boycotts government

At the beginning of February, at the time of large protests, the Government of Serbia adopted a decision by which it takes away 25 percent of the little money it has allocated to culture in order to transfer it to the budget reserve. Without reason or explanation. All sectors of culture suffered: 75 million dinars were taken from local culture, 34 million dinars from publishing, almost 28 million dinars from cultural heritage protection, 20 million dinars from film, and so on.

Beograd

16.July 2025 B. B.

Why Belgrade still does not have an open budget

"In 2025, when almost every European capital has a publicly accessible budget portal, Belgrade will still function according to the principles of a closed cash register," warns the organization Belgrade in Movement

SAD

16.July 2025 Nikola Lunić, geopolitics and security consultant

The largest defense budget in the history of civilization

American defense allocations will put a strong pressure on all members of the Alliance to meet the new NATO allocation standard as soon as possible because they could face unpredictable consequences

A deceptive victory for the Trump administration

09.July 2025 Slobodan Kostic

Justice for the rich

Since money has more value in America than in other parts of the world, budget allocation is not only a matter of the functioning of the state, but a matter of the priorities of those in power. The rich will have more, the poor even less, and all together will be more in debt than before

Francuska

04.June 2025 Ivan Šepić

Unbearable ease of loading

Since the verdict against Marine Le Pen and her National Assembly, which almost everyone has already somewhat forgotten, France has been rocked by increasingly dark affairs interspersed with mimes of Macron's (to say the least) bizarre adventures, all against the background of deep political turmoil and slight stumbling under the burden of the budget crisis and public debt. Even the recent victory of PSG in the Champions League could not pass without the "expectedly" tragic incidents, which is just another indicator of the far wider social crisis that France has fallen into.

The average net salary in May 2024 was 100.170 dinars.

Government of Serbia

28.May 2025. IN THE

New economy: Money of the BIA and the Serbian Army transferred to the account of the Government

The Government of Serbia, without any explanation, diverted more than 11 billion dinars from infrastructure, security and development projects to the budget reserve. This move coincides with the announcements of Aleksandar Vučić to increase pensions and salaries. Experts warn of a lack of transparency and possible misuse of the budget reserve mechanism

Government of Serbia

27.May 2025. B. B.

New economy: What did the Government of Serbia take 94 million euros from state projects for?

The money will be redirected to the Ministry of Finance, i.e. the budget reserve, for "financing expenses and expenditures that were not known in the process of adopting the Law on the Budget of the Republic of Serbia for 2025"

Budget for culture

17.April 2025. Sonja Ciric

Will Zrenjanin lose its status as Capital of Culture?

The mayor of Zrenjanin canceled the competition for funding projects during the year of the Capital of Culture. What does that actually mean?

State and culture

02.march 2025 Sonja Ciric

How money for culture is distributed

It is to be believed that the Ministry of Culture, the Provincial Secretariat and the Belgrade Secretariat for Culture will not award money to associations and companies that do not deal with culture or do not exist this year through tenders.

State and culture

23.February 2025. Sonja Ciric

Instead of being increased, the culture budget was reduced

At a time when cultural workers with the support of students are protesting because of the lowest budget in the region, the Government of Serbia has adopted a solution that reduces it even more. It is not known for whose benefit

19.February 2025. S.Ć.

The great secret of the discretion of the Minister of Culture

The Minister of Culture has the discretionary right regulated by law to award grants to projects outside of the competition, but not to publicly justify them

Financing

19.February 2025. S.Ć.

Associations: The Ministry of Culture does not care about culture

The Ministry of Culture participated in the adoption of the Decision by which 16.250.000,00 dinars were taken from the already unacceptably small budget for culture, say members of twenty representative associations in culture.

Economy

11.February 2025. IN THE

New economy: Everything revolves around EXPO

While the state provides funds for the completion of the EXPO and the National Stadium, the announced measures for students and education face budget constraints. The Ministry of Finance is already asking budget users for savings, and some infrastructure projects have been put on hold

Comment

30.December 2024 Radmilo Marković

Another billion - the people will sing, mourn and pay

The regime of Aleksandar Vučić boasts that he has as much money as you want in his account - and yet he owed Serbia another billion euros at terrible interest. Why? Because they can

Salaries in Serbia: Half of the people earn less than 600 euros

Budget

24.December 2024 B. B.

"Forbes": What is the budget reserve used for?

The government decided to "redirect" a total of 2,9 billion dinars, which were originally intended for various infrastructure projects, into the current budget reserve, and from there on at its own discretion

Investments

13.December 2024 S.Ć.

Everything for the Expo, crumbs for the metro

Regardless of the fact that the subway is being built once and for all and the Expo only for then and never again, the state has determined that 15 times more money will be allocated for the exhibition, the aquarium and the stadium than for one subway line.