Serbia’s Govt. to help employees in mid-May ; € 100 to every citizen

The aid would be paid only to those firms which did not fire more than ten employees and monthly to avoid abuse. “If someone gets that at once, they could fire people immediately after and go somewhere.”

The money will be paid into employees account.

Besides, every citizen will get 100 Euro after the end of the state of emergency, he adds.

Mali said that the Government's aid package would be 5.1 billion Euro and would include tax policy, direct aid to employees mostly in the private sector and support of the financial liquidity.

He announced additional measures for the most affected in the pandemic if the crises continued.

Mali said the money would be secured from the budget and in the capital markets at home and abroad and that the public debt would never be above 60 percent regardless of all measures.

He promised the breakdown of the package – how much would be allocated from the budget and how much from other sources - "very soon.”