SERBIA’S EU ACCESSION PROMPTS FOREIGN INVESTMENT

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, KEITH NUTHALL SERBIA is the latest European country to start formal accession negotiations with the European Union (EU) and as it prepares to joins the EU, its auto sector will have increasingly unfettered access to the EU's 500 million consumer market. To boost its own auto sales, Serbia has already agreed to shed import duties on EU-made cars through an interim cooperation agreement with the EU entering into force last February. It included promises to scrap Serbian auto tariffs by January 2012. But full free access to the EU market for ...


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