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Serbia’s government has sent parliament three draft laws for dinar loans for the Belgrade–Zrenjanin–Novi Sad motorway. 021 gives caps of 13 billion dinars from UniCredit Bank Srbija, 5 billion from Banca Intesa and 10 billion from NLB Komercijalna banka—28 billion in total; the project's 2026 budget borrowing ceiling is 35 billion dinars.
Low Danube water near Novi Sad has exposed remains of the Island Redoubt, a late-17th-century fortification that protected Petrovaradin Fortress, N1 reports. Shallow water is also hampering boats and barges: fuel and grain move in smaller loads or shift to more expensive road and rail transport.
The maximum euro-diesel price in Serbia is 227 dinars a litre from 15:00 on 7 August, one dinar higher than a week earlier. Euro-premium BMB petrol remains 202 dinars a litre; the prices apply through 14 August, while reduced fuel excise duties were extended through 16 August.
N1 reports that Magna’s Aleksinac plant, which makes car-seat covers, has begun a “workforce adjustment,” confirmed by the company. No details or potential number of job losses were announced. The report notes workers’ concern and says the plant employs 850 people and matters to the local budget.
The Finance Ministry reported a January–June Serbian budget deficit of RSD 51.6bn, according to 021. June recorded a RSD 48.1bn surplus, with revenue of RSD 276.9bn and spending of RSD 228.8bn. The state-sector fiscal deficit published for the half-year was RSD 55.8bn.
Prime Minister Đuro Macut announced that, from 17 August, insured people in Serbia will be entitled to 18 more prescription medicines with state co-financing. The list includes 16 oral anticoagulants and two medicines for certain heart-failure patients. According to N1 and 021, the state will cover 70% of the anticoagulants’ price, reducing the co-payment to roughly RSD 600–1,100 per pack.
