Today and tomorrow, we will have the opportunity to embark on a wide-ranging debate on the challenges ahead. In my remarks today, I will touch upon a few of them. To begin with, I think we can all agree that the pandemic crisis has further exacerbated the effects of some ongoing long-term trends.
At that time, there was no Brussels administration and Serbia was offered no technical or any other assistance, but the makers of the first law on the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia had a clear vision of the country’s future and of what needed to be done for Serbia to catch up and keep pace with the best European practice.