Source: EMportal

Peter Wins, General Manager of the Moody’s credit rating agency for Central Europe has announced that the Western Balkan countries could become EU members in 2017, while Croatia could be admitted in 2011 already.

"Croatia has positive prospects for the future rating since rating is affected by Euro-integrations as well”, Wins said at the conference “How to manage risks in the period of financial crisis”, organized by Ekonomist Media Group.

Banks in Serbia are pretty stable since they have high reserves at the National Bank of Serbia, Wins said. “We believe the crisis will affect the Balkan countries, including Serbia, especially due to lower investments, both in the banking and corporate sector. Imports and exports will decrease,” Wins said.

He added that he couldn’t speak about the rating of Serbia, since no ratings had been performed for Serbia. According to his words, Serbia and Albania are the only countries not ranked by Moody’s, since they haven’t received a request for that from the two countries’ governments.

However, Serbia can be observed as part of the Western Balkans, he added.

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