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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Population policy priority of government

Belgrade, 21 August 2017

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that the population policy and better demographic future of Serbia are priorities of the government, pointing out the importance of full implementation of existing laws and harmonising work and parenting.

After the constituent session of the Population Policy Council, Brnanic emphasised that we can talk about the growth of GDP, bring investors, reduce unemployment, but if we do not have success as the Population Policy Council, we have no future.

One of the topics at today's meeting were amendments to the Birth Enhancement Strategy, with an expert group that has a 90-day deadline to prepare these amendments.

The Prime Minister pointed out that the Strategy is a long-term measure, but that short-term measures are also planned on the basis of the research of harmonising work and parenting, which should be given the first results faster.

She pointed to the importance of full implementation of existing laws, adding that efforts must be made to popularise legal solutions that can harmonise work and parenting.

She also said that shorthcomings were noted and that some legal solutions need to be changed.

Minister without Portfolio in charge of Demography and Population Policy Slavica Djukic Dejanovic submitted a report on past work and stressed that Birth Enhancement Strategy is theoretically remarkable, but that it has not been applied and that it was necessary that it be innovated.

The first steps were taken with local governments to improve the state of the population policy and RSD 130 million of grants for projects in 15 municipalities across Serbia were set aside.