The Albanians and I
| 16/07/2008A well-known Belgrade author now living in Germany recalls his personal experience of his Albanian compatriots while growing up and living in Serbia.
Everything is Possible
| 15/07/2008The negotiations cannot be started before next year, and it is hard to perceive how they could be finalized in less than four years. Even if the Serbian government and the National Assembly would speed up the process, let’s say to work three times as fast as they have been working from 2001 to this day. Therefore, can Serbia join the EU by 2012? Everything is possible.
The Rape of Serbia
| 13/07/2008This is the price of the nationalist cogito: the price which, as we know, so-called patriotic poets – these god-given mediators of the national spirit – are happy to pay. Antonić’s book testifies that the price is not high even for a political analyst.
Serbia and Kosovo
| 11/07/2008Breaking diplomatic relations with France, Britain, Germany and the United States would harm Serbia more than these states. The fact that you have broken relations with all these countries, that you have got angry or eventually even found a way of doing harm to them, will not make it any more likely that you will get closer to your aim, which is sovereignty over Kosovo.
Serbia’s Past and Future
| 09/07/2008I have a certain confidence in the people of Serbia. This is hard, thanks in the first instance to the fact that we are emerging from an immense evil, the responsibility for which lies with society but also with every individual, including ourselves, the two of us now talking to one another.
The Art of Possible
| 07/07/2008The economy is developing autonomously, and what constitutes a state is the politicians’ responsibility. The state – those are the big systems, health and education. If there is privatization, the capitalists will not consider social problems, because this is a job for the state. A serious system thinks about people.
Four Times There and Back
| 03/07/2008In 1912, when Serbia and its allies headed off to the First Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire, it went to war with two publicly stated war goals. The first goal was expansion to the south, to Kosovo and Macedonia, and the other equally important goal was to getting exit to the Adriatic Sea through northern Albania.
Behind the Curtain
| 29/06/2008This is the realism I speak for, not to get carried away with emotions, not to get carried away with moralizing, to be aware of this huge battle which is currently taking place and in which we are participating. We must not allow this minimal eagerness for Europe to dwindle, because this minimum is very large for Serbia.
What is the European Union?
| 26/06/2008Economist Vladimir Gligorov examines the ideas of the European Union and the possible deficiencies in its structure.
Interview with Albert Rohan
| 25/06/2008In hind-sight it was a major mistake by the international community not to have solved the problem in 1999 once and for all. Instead there was this interim solution, where the administration of Kosovo was taken away from Serbia on the one hand, while the Yugoslav sovereignty over Kosovo was re-affirmed on the other, leaving the future status open. It would have been better to have solved it then and there and by now the conflict would have been over for a long time.
The Melodrama of Politics
| 24/06/2008What graced Politika in better and more professional times – seriousness and analyticity – in the editorial version of Ljiljana Smajlovic attained the features of tabloid-like plunking, demonizing the regime’s opponents and irresponsible name calling, which ended in the drastic drop-off in circulation and in a new decline of this company’s reputation.
A Suspicious Person
| 20/06/2008Ljubisa Ristic’s gesture of naming the stages after his former partners who were his ideological opponents in the late 90’s was actually a fetishization of his own past. In that sense, the Secerana (Sugarmill) was precursor of a different, much more ambitious fetish town, the one on Mokra Gora.
Pain-O-Meter
| 20/06/2008People were frightened, and it was Kostunica who frightened them. I want to remind you of the speech he gave in the National Assembly, it was frightening. You saw a man who was possessed, monomaniacal, furious, angry, and when the U.S. embassy started burning and those riots followed, which he himself instigated, things suddenly reversed. That is how I explain the Democratic Party’s success.
The Troubled Birth of Kosovo
| 18/06/2008The decision of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and a number of other countries to break with international law, which regards the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states as sacrosanct, and to permit Albanian separatists in Kosovo to declare independence from Serbia was an act so extraordinary in international relations that it had to take place outside the United Nations, where its illegality would have been hard to justify.
The Devil on the Head of the Pin
| 17/06/2008Dacic will not break Milosevic’s icon or bury the Leader for the second time. N. S. Khrushchev broke Stalin’s icon and literally dug him up from his grave in the mausoleum and took the body somewhere else. Its final resting point remains unknown.
The Body Electric
| 16/06/2008On November 21st 1996, an estimated 20,000 people gather at Republic Square for the first of 83 days of protest called by Zajedno. Two days later the students commence 116 days of protests in Belgrade, its members asking for an independent electoral commission and distancing themselves from party politics.
The Split
| 16/06/2008Everywhere in the world the government is controlling something, but the idea of an honest government is discredited here. The degree to which the government apparatus is corrupted is so huge that it cannot be treated in any other way but to lessen its empowerments and authorizations, and the price would be new injustices and wasting social resources. But even that is smarter than treating the rabid government apparatus with aspirin, because it will not work.
A Moralist
| 11/06/2008Why is a moralist disliked in these times? What has he done to deserve this? It is not a big secret. Judging by the way a moralist acts, what he thinks and how he speaks, he should not expect anything but reproach and anger, and he should not be surprised by something even worse.
Distrust
| 08/06/2008Economist Vladimir Gligorov discusses who is to be blamed for high inflation and what it means when the finance minister warns of budget deficit.
The President Without Make-Up
| 07/06/2008In order to form a government with the SPS there is no need to show respect to Slobodan Milosevic. There is even less need for asking that the death of a dictator be equated to the assassination of Serbia’s first democratic Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic.
CORAX
English Summary
Cedomir vs. LDP
| 16/05/2012
It`s time for Jovanovic to stand in front of a mirror, and begin a process of deep introspection.
Drive on, everyone is on board!
| 05/05/2012
Primary impression is that everything is taking place in an airless space of a compromised reality.
Serbia’s Foreign Policy
| 05/05/2012
“Democracy First!” means “Serbia First!” The European Union doesn’t really need Serbian democracy.
Organized electoral theft
| 05/05/2012
There are enough indications to seriously examine the possibility of organized electoral fraud.
