The Serbian government plans to raise the guaranteed level of citizens’ savings in banks this week from the present €3,000 per deposit, State Secretary of the Finance Ministry Slobodan Ilic announced.
Slobodan Ilic
The measures will be announced by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic in upcoming days in a package that should help banks and customers surmount the global financial crisis, he told B92.
Ilic said that there is not a single rational reason to lose trust in the Serbian banking system.
Speaking on gas price rise, he recalled that the gas price has not changed for a year and a half, during which period the price of gas rose from $248 to $530 per 1,000 cubic metres, he said noting that gas is more expensive in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Latvia.