European Integration Minister and national IPA coordinator Jadranka Joksimovic said that the European Union (EU) has approved a grant of 223.615 million Euro to Serbia for investment in seven projects.

Three of the projects are in the transport sector, two are in the energy sector with one each in the digital infrastructure and social infrastructure sectors.

It was said that the grant was approved within the sixth EU Investment Framework for the Western Balkans (WBIF) call for project proposals, while the total estimated investment value of the approved infrastructure projects is 885,413 million Euro.

„All these projects are designed to contribute to the growth of investments in Serbia and to deepen Serbia’s overall trade and economic cooperation with the Western Balkans region and with the European Union,“ Minister Joksimovic said.