Adopted city budget: About 250 million euros for social measures

About the budget of the City of Belgrade and city municipalities for the following year decided on Wednesday (December 25) City Assembly.

It is planned in the total amount of about 187 billion dinars, i.e. 1,5 billion euros. About 172 billion dinars apply to the budget of the City of Belgrade, and about 15 billion dinars to the budgets of the city's municipalities, said the city's finance secretary, Katarina Čubrić.

Katarina Čubrić said that transfer funds from the budget of the Republic will be introduced into the city budget at the moment of their realization, in accordance with the Law on the Budget System, and the largest part relates to the construction of the metro.

The mayor, at a press conference held on Wednesday morning, announced that more than four billion dinars will be set aside for student aid, and that free entry to swimming pools will continue, for which an allocation of around three million euros is planned, as well as a New Year's gift. vouchers.

For free social protection services, funds are provided for personal assistants and for those who need help. They amount to around four and a half million euros, which was also introduced two and a half years ago.

Close to 250 million euros from the budget will be provided for all these social measures, Šapić specified.

Members of the opposition criticized the proposed city budget, judging that it represents the basis for the continuation of corruption and that it is not up to the citizens.

Blockade of the entrance to the Parliament

The beginning of the session this morning was marked by the blockade of the entrance to the Belgrade City Assembly, which was carried out by activists of the Initiative "The Bridge Remains".

Opposition councilors in the Belgrade City Assembly and activists of the "The Bridge Remains" initiative blocked traffic between Nikola Pašić Square and the City Assembly for 15 minutes and paid their respects in silence to the victims of the fall of the railway station canopy in Novi Sad.

Activists of the "The Bridge Remains" initiative held a banner that read "You won't tear it down, be Zarić."

A woman got out of a car and joined the action of councilors and activists.

This action was strongly condemned by SNS councilor Nebojša Bakarec.

Bakarec assessed that it was about "violence of hooligans led by (Đorđe) Miketić, who attacked the City Assembly".

"I also condemn the opposition's attack on our councilors in our offices." We will never attack you," Bakarec said from the assembly speaker, as part of the discussion on the city budget for 2025.

Source: FoNet/N1