*  *  *  Ladies and Gentlemen, Regardless of all political and economic challenges during the last two years, Serbia managed to maintain its economic stability. And the challenges have been quite a few, what with things like adoption of the new Constitution, early elections, presidential elections, Kosovo issue and again early elections, oil and agricultural shocks, etc.
However, the challenge we are currently facing comes from abroad and forces upon us a new set of rules, puts things into a different context and requires a different perspective – if not to adopt a completely new pattern of thinking and working criteria then at least to think and work faster and more efficiently.