Personal attitude

26.August 2026 Slobodan Vukosavic

Appearance of development, criminalization and systemic collapse

Many years of living in the conditions of criminalized political and state institutions, as well as the criminalization of public finances and the economy, negatively affect the social mentality and change the value system. Many citizens accept general criminalization as the new normal. Many get the impression that their survival essentially depends on the ruling group and that their income will be threatened if there is a change.

Banknotes of 2.000 dinars in the palms

Poverty

09.April 2026. NM

Poverty in Serbia: How to live in the red

In Serbia, the average monthly income per household in 2025 was 109.136 dinars, and expenditures for personal consumption of households were 109.787 dinars. How to live in the red in a country where a fifth of the Greek nation is on the brink of existence

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The super rich

19.January 2026 KS

Oxfam before Davos: Billionaires getting richer

While one in four people in the world struggle to have enough to eat on a regular basis, and almost half of the world's population lives in poverty, the super-rich are getting richer - in 2025 alone, the wealth of billionaires grew three times faster than before

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Standard of living

04.September 2025 KS

Pensions are convincingly losing the race with wages

Since the progressives came to power, the average pension in Serbia is not even half of the average salary. The real trouble is that half a million pensioners survive on less than 250 euros a month

Economy

04.September 2024 Milica Srejić

How much does a dignified life cost?

Is the action "Best price" just a promotional trick of the ruling party at a time when people are protesting on the streets against lithium mining and when the minimum wage for the next year is being decided? It will be 53.592 dinars, which coincides with the amount of the minimum shopping basket, but for May of this year. In addition, the Labor Law, in relation to the payment of the minimum wage, has not been respected in Serbia for years

Politics

11.September 2023 BG

With Vučić to eat a Parisian - and a quarter of bread

The president announced that on Wednesday, he will go to the store with Sinisa Mali and Tomislav Momirović to have a Parisian breakfast, which will have a lower price from that day along with 19 other products.

Economy

11.September 2023 MN

High prices are here to stay

"I'm afraid the prices are here to stay and we'll have to get used to them." Inflation has eaten an average of 40 percent of our standard in the last three years," says Goran Radosavljević, professor of the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration.

What we buy and what we give up

06.September 2023 Milica Srejić

Economic tiger and hungry citizens

The minimum consumer basket for a household of three for the month of May this year was 51.874,39 dinars. With that amount, among other things, it is foreseen that the family can buy 500 grams of hake or 200 grams of lemons per month. Seasonal fruit was not even mentioned, I guess that's a luxury. In short, with the minimum net income from 2023, you could cover the minimum consumer basket, but from 2019. And since 2019, the prices have been going up and up

News

08.October 2022 A.I

Address by Aleksandar Vučić: Sanctions against Russia if the pressure becomes too much

What was new in the presentation of the President of Serbia this time was that he did not predict the apocalypse, Armageddon, the destruction of the world, and the great and Serbian one, but on the contrary: everything is under control, everything is great, the citizens have nothing to fear, there will be an increase in pensions and salaries , there will be electricity and oil and gas and coal and peas

Comment

01.December 2021 Radmilo Marković

Freezing prices in Serbia: Doubts about the effectiveness of the measure

It is entirely possible that the Price Freeze Regulation will actually lead to shortages of the products it applies to. The panic of the Association of Serbian Citizens when they hear something like this - from vouchers for basic products, through even-odd driving systems, to bread stamps, shortages of anything and everything and empty shelves in stores