A rebalance of a rebalanced budget
God forbid that this year is 20 days longer – our government would use that time to do one or two more budget rebalances.
Good night, and good luck
Vulin is being given absolution from corruption by the US Ambassador. Vulin being protected by the US, go figure? Oppose a large international power, if you dare, and if you are as brave as Vulin.
Zoran Milivojevic – A disgrace to a profession
A public forum was held at which Zoran Milivojevic, a promoter of physical punishment of children, presented his ideas to a hall packed with young parents, teachers and experts, and won standing ovations.
What should the opposition do?
My proposal for the opposition parties is to unite into one party. However, the key issue is whether these parties would let citizens to decide who the new leader will be.
Belgrade for the death penalty?
On Sunday, November 30, more than 1800 cities in more than 90 countries specially illuminated one of their monuments. This is a part of the international manifestation “Cities for Life – Cities Against the Death Penalty”.
The heart of Serbia
The Turkish police said that the young man from Serbia was actually murdered in a fight among Serbian fans. If this is true, is the young man’s murder less tragic? From the point of view of common sense, the answer is obvious.
Association vs. the Bar
Our government has simple answers to complicated questions. General economic collapse is resolved by increased allocations of budget funds to public enterprises and parties…
Right on target
Once upon a time, Serbia was a place where good and bad people were equally distributed all over the country. Now the good people live only in the ruling party.
Seselj’s return: Has Vucic passed that test?
Vucic failed to play his new role of a radical turned progressive European. And the public waited to see whether Vucic will pass the test of Seselj’s return.
We need a different Europe
Cosmopolitan perspective seems to be the core of optimism of the renowned German sociologist. Professor Beck visited Belgrade last week giving lectures on saving the European project.
Turning over a new leaf
The prime minister’s smile meant for chancellor Merkel disappeared. Only scowls and teeth grinding remained for Albanian prime minister. All in the spirit of “turning over a new leaf in our relations”.
An ethnologist at the Book Fair
It would be interesting to compare the Book Fair and Trumpet Festival in Guca, the speeches praising the Serbian books and those praising the Serbian trumpet. You could make a good doctoral dissertation out of it.
Serbian society and war crimes
“The very reality of existence, almost reduced to the mere existence of our bodies, has become suspicious”, said Srdja Popovic in this essay 11 years ago. He left us a year ago, but Serbian society is still standing in the same, unbearable spot.
Down with teachers!
Teachers are parasites on the state budget that spend money and produce nothing? The government maybe should declare teaching a socially-useful work, which isn’t funded by the treasury.
Beyond self-censorship
Blic’s headlines are an open invitation to lynch the actor Goran Jevtic. Is self-censorship no longer enough, and journalists now must offer someone as a sacrifice to save themselves?
Concessions to the trap
Serbia’s budget deficit this year will amount to around 3 billion euros. Serbian government debt rose to 70% of GDP (the law stipulates that it mustn’t exceed 45% of GDP).
Theatre of the absurd
Although fighter jets flew over the city the entire day, the Serbian government was unable to prevent a toy aircraft from entering the air space above the stadium where the match between Serbia and Albania was taking place.
Halving the mindset
We are being asked to change only the part of our mindset which prevents us from working hard, but not to change the whole mindset and go on strike, because we are working in poor conditions for low wages.
Impression of the week: A report without a report
After a pitiful delay, making a mockery of higher education, we see this decision of Megatrend’s external commission as one of the many acts of the Serbian academic tragedy.
Strictly controlled freedom
There are a lot of impressions, but there is no Olja Beckovic to classify them, nor can you vote any longer. Maybe this was the idea: you got the Pride, but lost “Utisak”; you had a flood, you will get Putin.
King Solomon’s riches
The Cyprus treasure became part of the oral tradition of a people robbed in the 1990s by a skillful mix of hyperinflation and Ponzi schemes.
In the shade of propaganda
We have status quo in Serbia, but Vucic’s version of that „parasite system“ is radically nihilistic. Its performers don’t believe in change, and anyway: they don’t know how to do it.
Don’t light the candles
The beating of a young man from Germany is not an “incident”. State retreats before the threats, and citizens demonstrate that it is none of their business, until it starts to endanger their imaginary reputation.
From Germany with love
Balkanist – German publishing house De Gruyter has confirmed that the article authored by Belgrade mayor Sinisa Mali, which granted him the right to defend his doctoral dissertation at FON, is plagiarism.
Human Rights? What for?
The introductory sentence of the first article in the Constitution defining Serbia in an early-romanticist manner as a state which “belongs” equally to the Serbian people and all citizens living in it – is politically profoundly insincere.
A summer strike
Until today, not a single attack against Pescanik was investigated. Just like on previous occasions, the website administrator has collected data of the attack from his logs. Pescanik’s legal team is preparing criminal charges against “persons unknown”.
The husband of president.rs’s wife
We had everything, but we still haven’t had a president who meddles in his wife’s affairs and stays away from his own. Now we have that.
The Etihad case
The most suspicious part of the Agreement is the one in which Etihad issues orders and commitments to the Government of Serbia to secure a monopoly over the airport Nikola Tesla for Air Serbia and Etihad.
Viktor Orbán’s “new state”
Ideally, Viktor Orbán would like to control what we in the rest of Europe are able to find out about his new “work-based state”. He must not succeed!
Global hate
In the news about the camp where Zilots train minors in the use of weapons, the most wicked is the prioress, who seeks to pull the children away from the computers by giving them guns.
Who here is not ready for the European standards of conduct?
The Minister of police mustn’t call a man who was arrested and suspected for execution of the gravest crime, “a monster”. He mustn’t present any details of the investigation to the public, and in particular, discuss the state of mind of the suspect.
Gennady in Jerusalim
In parallel with the specter of state bankruptcy, used for amortization of social unrest, the story of Russian relations has been intensively developing in the public. This story has two faces. One is the story of Russian power and the other is of mercy.
