Serbia signed 50m EUR worth of financial agreement on cross-border cooperation with Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary

The financial agreement on the projects for cross-border cooperation between Serbia and Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, worth 50m EUR, was signed on March 27th in Pirot.

The agreement, of which realization will take the next three years, was signed by the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Božidar Đelić, and the Head of the delegation of European Commission in Serbia, Žozep Ljoveras.

Following the signing of the agreement in the building of the Town Hall of Pirot, Đelić said that he expected that both Pirot and the south of Serbia would benefit from that agreement.

Đelić said that all citizens of Serbia would be backed by the funds from that agreement, and he said that Serbia was grateful to “European Commission and the citizens of Europe for the solidarity they have shown in spite of the crisis”.

The Head of the delegation of European Commission in Serbia, Žozep Ljoveras, said that, by signing the agreement in Pirot, EU wanted to “show that Serbia is not only Belgrade”.

Ljoveras said that EU had financed realization of plenty of projects in Pirot to the date.

- We backed construction of the sports hall, Historical Archives, opening of the Municipal Service Center, Tourism Organization and construction of the regional dump – said Ljoveras. – We are working on the development of Corridor 10, which is of great significance to the whole region, and we are going to enable opening of the railway crossing with Bulgaria before summer.