Belgrade, Feb. 08, 2010, (Serbia Today) – As Serbian news agency Tanjug reports, Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas said that there will be no other increases in prices for communal services in Belgrade other than for heating.
We have no plan to increase the prices of other communal services. Recently, we even decreased the price of water and garbage removal,” Đilas said. He said that there is a possibility that the costs of other services will be decreased, if the companies working in these fields find that it can be done after evaluating their income. The Mayor said that heating prices are related to energy prices, and if one increases, the other must as well.
“We are now in a difficult position and asking for heating price to be increased by more than six percent in a time when people are barely making ends meet. However, if we do not do this, we could end up with no heat,” he said. “The state must decide whether it will have an agreed or market price. You cannot say that the energy prices are formed freely and according to the market and then have an increase of 30 percent in four months, and for heating to increase by six percent. That is not possible,” Đilas said. He said that the state should take a stance on whether it wants to co-finance the price of gas and other energy sources in order to enable the citizens to have cheaper heating.
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