The construction of two new highways, the legal regulation of liabilities between companies and the start of Macedonia’s gasification – projects that Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced for next year – are going to have a positive effect on the business climate, businessmen say.

Zlatko Kalenikov, President of the Macedonian Chambers of Commerce, says that he has heard from the prime minister good news about the four most important things in business – gasification, infrastructure, fiscal discipline, and salaries and pensions.

“The most important thing to us is starting the gasification project because that would halve the costs of production companies. If it truly begins, the gasification will be the most positive thing in 2014. Home building firms will be contracted for the construction of roads, whereby this industry will be stimulated. Once the government settled its outstanding liabilities to companies, settling debts among companies themselves has now left to be done and this is very important considering everybody waits for the other to repay its debts so they, too, can settle their debts to a third party,” Kalenikov said.