NBS - Remittances from abroad make up about eight percent of GDP.

Economy

10.April 2024. MS (RSE)

Fixing the Serbian household budget: Relatives and friends from abroad help

The regulations in Serbia do not provide for limits on the amounts that citizens of Serbia can receive from relatives and friends from abroad. In the past ten years, 34,9 billion euros have flowed into Serbia in this way. The owner of an exchange office in Kragujevac, which is connected to the international money transfer system, Zoran Milovanović says that he processes five to ten payments from abroad every day.

Interview: Tamara Džamonja Ignjatović - six months after the tragedy in Dubona and Mali Orašje

15.November 2023 Ivana Milanović Hrašovec

Deep pain and grave injustice

A couple of parents from Dubona lost both children. They live from agriculture. When they deliver their goods to someone, sometimes they never get paid for it. They simply have no way to pay for their work if someone who owes them is "above the law". That man is in a pre-infarction state and the first thing the doctor advised him was that he should not do physical work. But he tells us: "What am I going to do if I can't work, how can I live, and even when I work, they cheat me." In fact, they all live with a "built-in", learned acceptance that injustice is a part of this life. They say so themselves, they are reconciled with that: "We are used to injustice, that's how life is."

Politics

28.October 2023 BG

What do pensioners get, right before the elections?

Manipulation of the most vulnerable citizens continues. After the increase in pensions, pensioner cards, a bonus of 20.000 dinars, a certain category of the oldest fellow citizens will also receive an additional discount on the electricity bill

Natural disaster

12.September 2023 S.Ć.

Flood in Libya: Derna is a city of disaster

At least 5200 people died after a devastating flood in the city of Derna. Due to the difficult political situation, help is not coming even though many are sending it

The World

26.July 2023 M.S

Fires in Greece: Three victims on the island of Evia

So far, three victims have been recorded in the fires in Greece. The pilot and co-pilot of the plane carrying water to extinguish the fire on the island of Evia were killed, and the body of a farmer who had been missing since July 23 was found.

Climate refugees

12.July 2023 Lazar Vasovic

Shared responsibility

It seems that at the moment war is more important than hunger, such a situation only makes it even more difficult to get to know climate refugees. It is clear that there is currently no solution to overcome the problem of climate refugees and the hungry. There, the solution is much easier to find than the one for resolving armed conflicts. The billions sent to Ukraine for weapons could have stabilized the situation in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan

Personal attitude

25.May 2023. Ela Ninić Krstić

On the occasion of the tragedy in "Ribnikar": Parents' fear of the unknown

A friend once told me that her dad wouldn't let her go to her best friend's eighteenth birthday party because she organized it on a raft. The father felt that it was not the place for his daughter. She decided to leave, at any cost. The father shouted after her that she does not understand what it means to be a parent and that he does not approve of it, because he is afraid. My friend turned and looked into his eyes: "No, that's not true. You just don't want to be afraid and that's why it's easier for you to stay at home"