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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

State will continue to encourage childbirth

Belgrade, 3 April 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that the family is the guarantor of the survival of society and the state, and that the government will try to maintain the continuity of support for the birth of children in the coming period, and that it will provide increasing subsidies to multi-member families.

At the First National Conference on the Family "Serbia – Our Family", Brnabic pointed out that everything the state is doing through increasing salaries and pensions, creating new jobs and other investments, has no meaning unless something is done to have more children and thereby ensure that Serbia survives and becomes stronger.

Investing in health care, new schools, culture and the development of Serbia is also meaningless unless we do something to make sure there are more of us and that the country becomes stronger in the future, the Prime Minister emphasised.

She pointed out that everything that the government of Serbia is doing is in fact a pro-natal policy, and that the most important activities of the state are to improve the quality of life of citizens, as this will contribute to more births of children.

According to her, measures related to direct support for childbirth, such as subsidies for apartments and giving money for the first, second, third and fourth child, are just a bonus.

The Prime Minister noted that as of 1 January, the parental allowance was increased for the birth of the first, second, third and fourth child, as well as that the state provides support to citizens to become parents through in vitro fertilisation.

Brnabic reminded that these rights have been expanded since 2018, and added that an unlimited number of in vitro fertilisation attempts for the first child was introduced, the number of attempts for the second child was increased, and that the age limit for it was raised for women from 43 to 45 years of life.

The Prime Minister stated that approximately 5% more babies were born in January and February this year compared to the same period of the previous year.

Brnabic presented five strategic goals that the state will carry out in the future, such as improving the quality of life and greater focus on balanced regional development, because medium-sized cities, regional centres are a key factor for demography in our country, in order to prevent internal migration.

The Prime Minister also mentioned subsidies for the purchase of the first real estate for mothers in the amount of up to €20,000, noting that the government of Serbia amended that decree and specified it better so that the problems with concluding contracts that existed before the approved subsidy would not be repeated.

She announced amendments to the Law on Financial Support for Families with Children in which the focus will be on mothers entrepreneurs, who will be enabled to use their partner’s right to care for the child after three months of birth, and that mothers entrepreneurs who give birth to three or more children will be entitled to a two-year leave.

The Prime Minister emphasised that it is necessary to invest more in preschool education if we want to have a strong and successful country in the future.