The European Movement in Serbia and the Union of Employers of Serbia have by signing the Memorandum marked the beginning of joint activities to develop a market economy, encourage knowledge and innovation, improve the investment climate, while harmonizing it with the EU acquis and accelerate Serbia’s European integration process.

The memorandum was signed by Jelica Minić, President of the European Movement in Serbia and Miloš Nenezić, President of the Union of Employers of Serbia and Chairman of the Social and Economic Council of the Republic of Serbia.

The memorandum also envisages providing support to the economy in fulfilling the obligations arising from the process of EU integration and harmonization of domestic legislation with the European Union legislation.

– Our shared goal is a well-networked, competitive, sustainable and innovative economy, based on knowledge and with transparent foreign investments which have equal conditions with domestic investments on the market. We should work together on our inclusion in the European environment, without debt slavery, without disposing of natural resources and without sacrificing water, air and healthy food – said Jelica Minić.

– The European Movement in Serbia and the Union of Employers of Serbia are the two oldest European organizations in Serbia, which in the future plan to make stronger appearances towards the domestic public as well as towards the European administration. The memorandum is only an umbrella agreement, with which we plan numerous activities that will be important for Serbian companies, but also concern the education field, professional practice, and all connected with the European integration process in which our country is – said Bosko Savkovic, the General Secretary of the Union of Employers of Serbia.

After almost 27 years, the European Movement in Serbia and the Union of Employers of Serbia are facing a new challenge – how to make the best use of opportunities to strengthen entrepreneurship and civil society as very important pillars of a modern democratic Serbia, said Jelica Minić and added

– We are back on path on which we should work together on the affirmation of Serbia’s European track and its entrepreneurial spirit. It is just as in the first half of the 1990s, when our two organizations were founded and when the European Movement with sincere conviction sought to connect a group of entrepreneurs who wanted to form a modern association that would protect and promote the interests of small and medium enterprises in Serbia with appropriate partners in Europe.