One-off tool to eliminate rivals
The National election committee will decide whether the candidate holds the position of a minority party “on the basis of a certificate issued by the relevant national minority council to the applicant”.
A court from the shadows, or a shadow of a court
Instead of protecting democracy, almost all of the work of the Court is devoted to resolving constitutional complaints.
Simple mathematics
We have learned that Vesna Pesic is a super-trained specialist sniper who is planning to assassinate the president, and the parliament session held the day before yesterday was also interesting.
Protest letter
Protest against attacks on representatives of the academic community in the National Assembly: MP Marko Atlagic is a person with a rare political career in contemporary Serbia…
30 year regression of Serbia
Danas – We have a history of defeat and people don’t expect to live better. It has nothing to do with poverty. China was a poor country, but the savings rate was about 40 percent of GDP.
Media and the past that is not passing
Balkan.Perspectives – The journalists who were critical of the aggressive nationalist politics of the nineties are now critical of the consequences and persistent supporters of those politics.
Sex, drugs, and no rock ‘n’ roll
The government has started the Serbia creates campaign. They took millions from the healthcare system and put them into self-advertising. They took the money from us and put it into their promotion.
Donkeys
After only 24 hours, PISA has faded from the mind of the Serbian public. One expert said that the 2018 data is devastating. The minister said that we can’t expect good results before 2024 or 2027…
The importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe
The EU resolution which equates communism and Nazism was adopted with 535 votes in favor, 66 against, and 52 abstentions.
Printing money
I need to write a paper on the the crisis of socialism with an emphasis on the stagflation in Yugoslavia. I wrote a paper on the crisis and on the Yugoslav macroeconomic policies already in 1982…
Fiscal rules and councils
So, why fiscal rules and fiscal councils? There are probably two initial considerations. One was that democracies tend to run deficits – have a deficit bias – which may be inter-temporally inefficient…
Epilogue
Today, academic standards and the autonomy of the university triumphed over political influence. The whole process, which took more than five years, has improved the University of Belgrade.
The missing from Kosovo
Balkan.Perspectives – Some of the 1,000 missing Kosovo Albanian victims are in the undiscovered mass graves in Serbia, probably near military and police facilities.
Free elections and freedom for the whistleblower
I’m ashamed to watch EU negotiators with our representatives talking about electoral conditions without demanding freedom for A. Obradovic.
Pivo
– Was Pivo also a painter? – Yes, he was. And during the war he drew pictures of the Partisans as a way of chronicling their lives. Here, let me show you… we even have a little book…
Let’s move on
Thus spoke Sinisa Mali: “I will accept the responsibility and let’s move on.” It is now pointless to ask him what this accepting of the responsibility actually means, for he has already moved on.
Peter Handke: Sorrow of the Nobel prize
Handke’s literary career and intellectual de-evolution came down to the desire to use the breakup of Yugoslavia to facilitate one’s own rise to glory, just like Bernard-Henri Lévy, who chose Bosnia.
Ricardo on horses, soldiers, and the rise of machines
Horses do not increase the division of labour as it were. Machines, however, may require adjustment in the comparative advantages.
One-man boycott
Marina Abramovic, who once managed to escape from that dungeon of art, hated socialist Yugoslavia, has now returned to capitalist Serbia. The reborn motherland welcomed her back…
Rector Ivanka Popovic
The rector said that the truth about Sinisa Mali’s doctorate should be determined as soon as possible… This is all it takes to make one a hero in Serbia – whether positive or negative.
The centre holds
The centre has just been able to hold. This is how one might see the EU elections, the decision by the Supreme Court in the UK, and the start of the impeachment proceedings in the US.
Bumblebee
When a certain Atlagic mentioned me in Parliament and declared me a traitor to Serbdom (because I insulted Aleksandar Vucic) he used the nickname “bumblebee” to refer to me several times.
Balkanization of historical memory
The creation of new states means producing new borders and changing old ones. It creates problems not only with customs, traffic, passports, and currencies, but also with historical memory.
New public monuments in the region: a weapon in the civil war of memory
Balkan.Perspectives – The demolition of communist monuments has marked the symbolization of renewed capitalism in a thanato-political way…
Trade war
Third countries will matter in a sense that if they follow the yuan and depreciate against the dollar, their terms of trade with China will not change while they will deteriorate with the US.
Made in Budjanovci
MP Vladimir Djukanovic, a big Red Star fan, defended the tank in front of the Red Star stadium and stressed once again that “Red Star fans died for Serbdom more than anyone else”.
A lesson from Gornji Brestovac
One mathematician has left Serbia and moved to Saudi Arabia. Because of this transfer, Belgrade University lost points. If this is true, I’m not sure if we should even have one.
Siniša Mali – PhD thesis controversy
Siniša Mali obtained his PhD “Value Creation through the Process of Restructuring and Privatisation – Theoretical Concepts and Achieved Results in Serbia” at the University of Belgrade’s FOS in 2013…
University on a silver platter
The Ethics committee of the University referred the case of Sinisa Mali’s doctoral thesis back to the Faculty of organizational sciences for deliberation, in spite of the request to deny approval of that PhD.
Novak’s lesson for Serbian scumbags
We feel as if we all helped Djokovic become the legendary sports hero, in spite Federer and 15,000 bitter opponents. We feel as if we did, but we didn’t. He did it all by himself. It’s not a national triumph.
The only Srebrenica victim
The prime minister Ana Brnabic said that she wasn’t going to Potocari because she “wasn’t invited”, and that “no one has yet been held accountable for the attack against Vucic in Potocari 2015.”
Aleksandar Vucic, fake protector of the “unwashed masses”
During the nineties he became rich over night, and today Vucic is also taking from the poor and giving to the rich, while claiming to fight for the downtrodden.
