city budget

CLS director warns Belgrade’s 2025 budget proposal will deepen crisis, cut key capital projects

Nikola Jovanović, the director of the Center for Local Self-Government (CLS), evaluated the city budget proposal for 2025, which will be presented to the councilors, and highlighted that it reveals the full extent of Belgrade's crisis. He warned that the budget would only exacerbate existing problems. Jovanović pointed out that planned revenues for 2025 are 13 billion dinars lower than those for the current year, while key capital projects have been significantly reduced. These include important initiatives such as Patriarch…