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ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC PARTNERS GERT RABBOW
Executive Director of the German-Serbian Chamber of Commerce (Interim)
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GERMANY 2022
EU is currently the biggest donor to Serbia and Germany is its largest bilateral donor. As of last year, EU member states constituted 60.3% of total trade
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hen we talk about investments, the most attractive industrial sector is certainly automotive with its ever-growing numbers of investors. During the past decade German investment in Serbia increased considerably. The Lion’s share goes to the automotive industry followed by the machinery and equipment manufacturing sector, electronics as well as chemical and pharmaceutical industry.
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For years, Germany has been one of the largest investment partners in Serbia. Also, in 2021, the German-Serbian Chamber of Commerce (AHK) marked its 20th anniversary. How would you rate the economic cooperation between the two countries in the past two decades? The economic cooperation between our two countries has significantly improved over the past two decades. Since 2000, when Serbia changed its
political culture and the country became more open towards EU, the bilateral relations between Serbia and Germany have developed favourable, especially in terms of active dialogue, providing support and strengthening the economic cooperation. Serbia's single largest foreign trade partner was Germany, to which goods worth EUR 2.74 bn were exported and EUR 3.77 bn imported. In tandem with this, the German-Serbian Chamber of Commerce
