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Water polo players to receive monetary awards for gold medal at European Championship in Belgrade

Belgrade, 26 January 2026

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Siniša Mali announced today that the Serbian water polo players, who won the gold medal at the European Championship in Belgrade, will receive a cash award of €20,000 each, a decision to be confirmed at today’s government session.

In a televised interview with public service broadcaster RTS, Mali underlined that at yesterday’s thematic session of the government, a decision was made to form an operational team for Serbia’s European path, to be led by the Head of the Mission of the Republic of Serbia to the EU, Ambassador Danijel Apostolović, whose role will be to coordinate the accelerated implementation of all obligations on Serbia’s European path.

We will invest maximum efforts to fully complete and harmonise all laws and implementing regulations with the EU acquis by the end of the year, so that we can finally complete that process and do everything that depends on us, he underlined.

Mali said that the construction of the Expo complex is in full swing and that 132 countries have confirmed their participation in the exposition, which is the largest number of participants in Specialised Expos to date.

The First Deputy Prime Minister noted that Expo will be built as part of the Leap into the Future - Serbia 2027 plan, which entails 323 projects across the country, including the construction of infrastructure, fast roads, schools and hospitals.

He underlined that next year Serbia will host between three million and four million visitors, and that this year GDP growth of around 3% is expected, after last year’s expansion of 2%, whereas the projected growth for next year is around 5%.