PETITION OF NGOs
AND INTELLECTUALS
ABOUT VOJVODINA
April 18, 2013
The representatives of
non-governmental
organizations, public
figures and intellectuals from Vojvodina at
the meeting “Talks about Vojvodina”, held April 18, 2013, at Novi
Sad, have harmonized their views on the actual political moment in
Vojvodina and agreed to send their statement in the form of petition
to domestic and foreign public. About 100 participants at the
talks,
the representatives of civil organizations, public figures and
intellectuals from all parts of Vojvodina together came to the
following conclusions...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 26
SYMMETRIC OR ASYMMETRIC
SERBIA?
May 2009.
A public debate on constitutional revision
begun
even before Serbia's new 2006 Constitution was declared.
Dissatisfied with the constitutional frame for Vojvodina's autonomy,
the province's autonomists mostly insisted on the
issue. At the Third Vojvodina Convention last December they once
again emphasized the need for constitutional amendment. Some
speakers at the convention even said that autonomy was no longer a
frame that could satisfy citizens of Vojvodina. Inability of the
ruling coalition to reach a...
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VOJVODINA - CIVIL RIGHTS
ENDANGERED
In the second half of 2008, the problems
besetting the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, namely the continual
undermining of its
multiethnic potentials, culminated in attacks on
the province's Draft Statute. The document triggered yet another
wave of
campaigning against the idea of decentralization, that is of
Vojvodina's autonomy. A petition against the Draft Statute
introduced as part
of the campaign was
signed by
75 intellectuals
and academicians.
The
year was marked by the Kosovo issue and by
revivified anti-Montenegrin and, especially, anti-
Croatian propaganda...
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Serbia's Hungarians:
CURRENT SITUATION, VIEWS ON THE SERBIAN
POWER-STRUCTURE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
By Andras Beszterczey
This report aims to depict the general trends
that have come to characterise Vojvodina's Hungarians' place in
Serbia in the last five years. The period has seen the steadily
dwindling group politically
marginalised even as the nation moves
closer to
what the EU would deem a suitable state-of-affairs. Most
importantly, the influx of refugees into Vojvodina from the wars in
Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo have had a wide-
range of negative effects, leaving the Hungarians...
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