The city of Belgrade lost another big dispute worth 900 million dinars, claims Nikola Jovanović from the Center for Local Self-Government, and the total debt to suppliers is much higher.
The city of Belgrade will have to pay almost 900 million dinars, including all late interest, to the "Arriva Litas" carrier consortium, due to the violation of the contract they had with the city, said Nikola Jovanović, director of the Center for Local Self-Government. Jovanović claims for "Vreme" that this is a debt Secretariat for Public Transport, who did not pay services to private carriers on time in the name of contracts that exist with them.
"One of those consortia, which no longer cooperates so much with Around the city, he sued them and won. The question is how many more such companies there are and how many lawsuits could be brought," says Jovanović. "The fact that the City has huge debts to private companies is also very important, so the utility companies of Belgrade owe 26 billion dinars by March of this year."
The basic debt amounted to 588 million dinars and was incurred from the end of January 2022 to March 2023, and the rest of the amount is made up of interest and expenses until today, he adds.
"The verdict became final with the decision of the Commercial Court of Appeal on January 29 of this year, and it is a shame that the mayor does not inform us about such things, of which only this one will cost Belgrade citizens like 90 hours on Republic Square," said the director of the Center for Local Self-Government.
In February 2026, the members of the Belgrade City Assembly adopted a budget rebalance, and Jovanović still claims that it had to be made because of the Union Hotel's lawsuit against Belgrade.
"Regarding the bankrupt Hotel Union, which is suing the City for lost profit of 920 million dinars with interest and the Secretariat for Urban Planning for 412 million with interest for not acting in accordance with the law, the first judgment was in favor of the Union. After that, the City appealed and the appeal was accepted, and then the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Union. The City requested a revision, but the revision does not delay the execution" - said the City's financial secretary Katarina Čubrić during rebalancing.
The company Procoopac, behind which stands a businessman close to SNS Davor Macura, is the new owner of Hotel Union, wrote Nova.
The import of fossil fuels has cost Serbia more than 57 billion dollars in the past two decades, with a high price for the environment and the health of citizens. The energy transition is expensive, but its delay seems to be even more expensive
Due to damage to the pipeline on the Adriatic pipeline, crude oil transport to Serbia has been suspended, and the Pancevo Refinery is adjusting the volume of processing. NIS also requested diesel from operational reserves
Citizens could face new price increases in the coming months, partly due to the consequences of last year's administrative restriction of prices and trade margins.
Davor Matsuri's assets have been frozen. What is owned by the owner of "Alta banka", as well as numerous other businesses
Farmers welcomed autumn sowing without the second installment of subsidies for plant production, after four years of poor yields and rising costs. Agro-economic analysts warn that the government's technical mandate cannot be an excuse for the state not fulfilling its obligations
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
A black picture and the breakdown of the rule of law subscribeThe archive of the weekly Vreme includes all our digital editions, since the very beginning of our work. All issues can be downloaded in PDF format, by purchasing the digital edition, or you can read all available texts from the selected issue.
See all
