Serbia takes top spot for number of bureaucrats
29 January 2009 | 16:40 | Source: Vecernje novosti BELGRADE -- Serbia is the absolute record holder in the region in terms of the number of public administration employees with some 28,000, daily Vecernje Novosti writes. The daily states that the public administration has four times more employees now than it did in 2000. All the related expenses— state-financed wages, pensions and other payments—according to a rough estimate, amount to about EUR 15bn. The wages for public administration employees alone eat into one-tenth of gross domestic product, which is about EUR 3.5bn, the daily writes. http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2009 <http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=01&dd=29&nav_i d=56785> &mm=01&dd=29&nav_id=56785
