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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. File photoBELGRADE, Jul 28Due to the global crisis and its impact on energy and food supply, the Serbian authorities are actually introducing a state of emergency from August 1 to March 31, said President Aleksandar Vučić. we will not officially introduce it,» he said on TV Pink and repeated several times that the budget is «bleeding» to cover additional costs in energy supply, social services and other expenses. The head of state also said that under a new three-year contract with » Serbia now receives gas from Gazprom at a price of $350-370 per thousand cubic meters. We are talking about two billion cubic meters per year. Belgrade is forced to buy another billion cubic meters missing for Serbian needs at the market price. «We have allocated 560 million euros for this. This is a lot of money. I say this so that people understand how much the state is bleeding, how difficult it is,» the president said. Serbia and added that such spending is possible due to the ongoing successful tax policy, financial stability and the expected GDP of 58 billion euros.Vučić said Serbia will not give up its values ​​On Thursday morning, Vučić said that high temperatures in the Western Balkans are threatening the corn crop and have led to a decrease in the water level in the Danube and problems with coal transport, on the one hand, and an increase in electricity consumption, on the other . According to him, this creates difficulties in the production of electricity, which the Serbian authorities are forced to import. Coal production in the country is expected to decrease in the coming period, it is now delivered to thermal power plants by trucks and trains in volumes of thousands of tons per day from both Serbia and the countries of the region. Vucic has repeatedly stressed that the cost of electricity in the country is one of the most low in Europe. According to him, at the beginning of July, at prices on world exchanges of about 360 euros per megawatt in Serbia, a megawatt for households costs 41 euros, and for enterprises — 75 euros. More than 50 percent of the country's energy is produced by the Nikola Tesla Thermal Power Plant (TENT) network, with a maximum annual output of 20,000 gigawatt-hours produced and 28 million tons of recycled lignite from the Kolubara basin.The UN fears the beginning of the food crisis in November