Editorial
SERBIA WITHOUT A
CANDIDACY: STICKING TO LONGTIME GOALS
By Sonja Biserko
Serbia's political class seemed not distressed at all by the postponed
EU candidacy: they behaved as if they had been looking forward to it in the first place.
Encouraged by the global crisis, especially the one in Europe, Serb national strategists
thought the time was ripe for their plans for Bosnia - and in this regard the denied
candidacy made no difference. Analysts of all sorts promptly stepped up to convince the
public that a candidacy status would have been no... More >>> |
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Ante Markovic is Gone
PREMIER OF THE LAST
HOPE
By Dimitrije Boarov
Unusually at first glance but the news that Ante Markovic, the last
premier of the SFRY who had resigned on December 20, 1991 incapable of preventing an
upcoming war found the strongest echo in Serbia. Such large publicity given to
reminiscences of "Ante's era" two decades after his resignation - no matter how
popular that Yugoslav Premier had been and how successful businessman before - was not
exactly something one would have logically expected in Serbia. But a... More >>> |
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Transitional Justice
PATRIOTIC TEARS AND
CALCULATIONS
By Slobodanka Ast
What one finds today at the location now called Staro Sajmiste is the
biggest disco club in the Balkans and in Jajinci people are barbecuing, playing
football.Two big concentration camps in WWII justify historian Nikola Samardzic thesis
that no where else are fighters against fascism and its victims so much humiliated and
insulted, and monuments to anti-fascists smashed so barbarously and revengefully. This
second killing of victims and vandalism of... More >>> |
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Serbia Left without EU
Candidacy
THE LAST EPISODE IN A
BLUFFING POLICY
By Ivan Torov
Once again Serbia's political elites have not let down the tradition of
generating deeper and deeper crises to camouflage their ability to solve problems. Faced
with the fact that its Kosovo policy suffered another and probably final defeat in
December 2011 they resorted to time-tested methods: they faced us in turn with the
Hamletian dilemma - as a leading mastermind among them, Ivica Dacic, put it - so as to
postpone for a while (till March 2012) to... More >>> |
