In July 2024, the European Union (EU) and the Serbian government signed a strategic raw materials partnership. For the EU, this cooperation represents an important step towards diversifying its supply chains and strengthening economic partnerships in its neighbourhood. Serbian President...

Im Juli 2024 vereinbarten die Europäische Union (EU) und die serbische Regierung eine strategische Partnerschaft im Rohstoffsektor. Für die EU ist diese Kooperation ein wichtiger Schritt zur Diversifizierung ihrer Lieferketten und zur Stärkung wirtschaftlicher Partnerschaften in ihrer...

The research presented in this paper aims to determine to what extent hotels in Serbia use social media components on their websites. A total of 378 hotel websites in the Republic of Serbia were analysed. For each analysed hotel, the following attributes were observed: region, category, type,...

Im Juli 2024 vereinbarten die Europäische Union (EU) und die serbische Regierung eine strategische Partnerschaft im Rohstoffsektor. Für die EU ist diese Kooperation ein wichtiger Schritt zur Diversifizierung ihrer Lieferketten und zur Stärkung wirt­schaftlicher Partnerschaften in ihrer...

Migrationspolitik ist mittlerweile ein zentrales Thema bei Wahlen. In der Debatte um eine bessere Steuerung von Migration kommen wesentliche Aspekte allerdings zu kurz. So sind wir in Deutschland längst auf Erwerbsmigration angewiesen, zugewanderte Arbeitskräfte kompensieren den...

ECDC is helping countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce to prepare them for their future participation in ECDC's work. Technical cooperation with Western Balkans and Türkiye aims to improve...

The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a research tool that is designed to identify potential risks to media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union and in Candidate Countries. This narrative report has been produced on the basis of the implementation of the MPM that was carried out...

In the conditions of modern business environment of energy companies, studies of their impact on environmental protection are becoming increasingly important. The growing concern at the macro level of the resulting climate change due to energy production is justified. The ecological component in...

Serbia continues to recover well from the energy crisis. The authorities remain committed to policies that will help maintain strong external and fiscal buffers and that will support disinflation. With the planned large increases in public investment, it will be important to further strengthen...

In 2022, Serbia introduced a new budget system law with fiscal rules based on general government, as defined in the international statistical standards. The Serbian Ministry of Finance is committed to upgrading their fiscal reporting so as to report against these fiscal rules by 2025. Against...

The agricultural sector is a cornerstone of social and economic life in the Western Balkan (WB) countries. However, it faces challenges of slow productivity growth, limited access to assets, and vulnerability to external shocks like climate change. Agricultural policies are crucial to enhance...

The paper investigates the effects of internal migration flows on regional convergence in Serbia, a country with large regional disparities, during the period 2000-2018. For this purpose, we implement both the net and the gross (in- and out-) migration approaches. We undertake separate analyses...

Background One of the industries that was among the most disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic was the tourism industry. Hotel owners and managers needed guidelines on how to combat the "new normal" and enable the sustainable economic operation of the hotels they managed. Objectives This paper...

Serbia is transitioning to an environmentally sustainable, low-carbon, climate-resilient economy, but the transition must be accelerated in view of climate change and increasing air pollution. Serbia has Europe's worst per capita record for pollution-related deaths, and the environmental...

This report provides a baseline analysis of the existing situation in the municipal waste management sector in Serbia and underscores the importance of the sector in terms of achieving Sustainable Cities objectives. Reforms in the waste sector are a key component of a larger government...

Since 25 June 2024, the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) have been engaging in accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. The EU wants and needs to provide a strategic response to new geopolitical challenges, especially the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. At the same...

This policy note explores key issues in the Danube Region, focusing on labour market dynamics, including the development of digital skills, foreign direct investment (FDI) with a particular emphasis on FDI in the IT sector, and the robotisation and automation of the region's industries. Covering...

Migrationspolitik ist mittlerweile ein zentrales Thema bei Wahlen. In der Debatte um eine bessere Steuerung von Migration kommen wesentliche Aspekte allerdings zu kurz. So sind wir in Deutschland längst auf Erwerbsmigration angewiesen, zugewanderte Arbeitskräfte kompensieren den...

On December 9, 2024 the IMF's Board approved the Republic of Serbia's fourth, and final, review under the 2-year Stand By Arrangement (SBA) 2022-24, and a request for a successor 36-month Policy Coordination Instrument (PCI). Under the SBA, the authorities pursued ambitious reforms, helping...

The Country Opinion Survey in Serbia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Serbia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and...

Schon jetzt sind die sechs Westbalkanländer (WB6) politisch eng mit der EU verbunden. Doch seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine rückt nun auch die Frage einer Annäherung der WB6 an die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (GASP) stärker in den Fokus. Die EU sollte...

Über den Jahreswechsel haben sich die Spannungen zwischen Serbien und Kosovo wieder einmal verschärft. Dies geschah im Kontext der Verhandlungen über einen neuen Vorschlag der EU - den deutsch-französischen oder "europäischen" Vorschlag -, der darauf abzielt, die Beziehungen zwischen...

Processed meat products are a staple part of the typical European diet. Product packaging can include a considerable amount of information and, with other intrinsic and extrinsic attributes, substantially influence consumers' preferences and purchasing decisions. This study investigates 14...

This article leverages uniquely abundant town-level data to examine spatial inequality in prices and wages during the First Globalisation. I build a new dataset on prices of traded and household goods, and wages of skilled and unskilled workers for a panel of 42 towns in Serbia, in the period...

Migrations of the resident population in Serbia, with the Western European countries as the main destination, have influenced remittances becoming an important source of income from abroad. Relevant economic literature, as well as the influential views expressed in the international financial...

The paper explores the relationship between thediversification of bank activities and a set of bank performanceindicators by running multiple regression on panel data set of 22operating banks in Serbia in the time period spanning the last 15reporting years. We have found a positive influence of...

: The important role of the banking sector in the economic development of the country imposes the need for continuous measurement and monitoring of bank efficiency. Besides, identifying industry-specific and macroeconomic factors that affect the achieved efficiency is an important task in order...

Continuous organic production growth in the Republic of Serbia poses the issue of the existence of adequate distribution channels for these products, as they require specific storage and distribution requirements. In addition, the development of organic food production and demand for these...

The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a research tool that is designed to identify potential risks to media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union and in Candidate Countries. This narrative report has been produced on the basis of the implementation of the MPM that was carried out...

The aim of the study in this paper is to examine the effects of investment in research and development activities of the manufacturing industry on the innovativeness in economy of the Republic of Serbia, and to draw conclusions in which direction further investments should be managed, bearing in...

The increasing turbulence of the economic environment leads to changes in the business style, and adapting to this new style requires a cluster approach. In this sense, the goal of the research relates to determining the impact of the cluster internal and external interaction on innovative...

Motivation is a complex and dynamic factor that contributes to business success. Many factors influence the motivation of employees. The paper examines the influence of leadership on the motivation of employees in the tourism sector. The empirical research was conducted in September 2023. using...