Budget made for Vucic
Even if we assume that the official forecasts of GDP growth will be fully realized, the growth of salaries of civil servants will be almost two and a half times higher than the growth of total production.
From boycott to tabloid parliament
This is not the old skirmish between the government and the opposition. Now, a machine gun has been placed in the Parliament, and it opens fire on whoever is designated as a target.
Unilateralism or taking back control
Johnson has argued that the UK would be the only coastal nation which doesn’t have control over its waters. But that only means that the UK is not ready to enter into a trade deal which includes fishing.
Who are they? What do they look like? What are their names?
This year we have discovered the coldly statistical nature of the mass death event that is the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hypocritical proposal
Addressing the online threats against Vucic, the minister of the interior Vulin said that anonymity on the internet is “the source of all filth”, and that “it should be abolished”.
EC report on Serbia 2020 – judiciary and the rule of law
How could we, as a society, react to this report? Actively or by shrugging our shoulders? Perhaps we could approach it professionally.
The weight of evidence
We’ve had several candidates, said Vucic, but I have signed the decision. Sinisa Mali then explained how this “collective decision” came about: we unanimously accepted Vucic’s proposal.
The balance of power
So now both Banja Luka and Podgorica depend on Belgrade. Mr. Vucic is the true winner of the continuation of autocratic government in Banja Luka and of the transition of power in Podgorica.
How many people actually died?
The National bureau of statistic published the data on the births and deaths in August. The number of deaths could be one of the rare indicators of the real consequences of the pandemic.
Black Friday
After the session of the pandemic Crisis Committee Darija Kisic Tepavcevic announced that mandatory health surveillance of travelers returning to Serbia from abroad would be introduced in 5 days…
Improvisation with consequences
The content of the agreement is in line with Trump’s election campaign, and is in fact aimed at winning over American voters of Serbian, Albanian, and Jewish descent to vote for Trump.
The boycott opposition called to account
SZS turned the boycott into a quasi-ideology that determined who was the real opposition and who was a traitor of the boycott if they dared to actually vote against Vucic.
EUphrenia
The age of EUphoria is long gone. It is replaced by the age of EUphrenia, a behavioral and cognitive disorder, which can be tracked at all levels of the production of reality in Serbia.
Smile! You are being recorded
Marinika Tepic found Zagorka Dolovac in a café. There is footage of the event to prove that this was no urban legend. We can clearly see, apart from the two women, several extraordinary moments.
For the future of Serbia
The opposition keeps hoping that the Montenegrin “river of freedom” is going spill over into Serbia. They are wrong. That river is controlled by Aleksandar Vucic. Or at least its mainstream.
A light out of Montenegro – first impressions and new worries
With the election in Montenegro only just over, I can only give my first impressions, and time will tell if my interpretations of the opposition victory were valid.
Kosovo or poverty?
The World Bank recently published an estimate according to which, due to the crisis caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, an additional 125-327,000 people in Serbia could fall into poverty.
A Storm silenced with gestures of reconciliation
The deputy prime minister of Plenkovic’s government Boris Milosevic attended the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Operation Storm.
Abuse
When a sadist says that someone is abusing others and at the same time morally condemns that person for it, it is bizarre. Yes, I mean Vucic and his condemnation of the doctors, over 2,000 of them…
Srebrenica genocide has changed me and my generation
JusticeInfo – It’s a quarter of a century – and half of my lifetime – since the Srebrenica genocide happened, committed by the state of Serbia.
Philanthropy is a nice thing
The address of the officials in front of the Novi Pazar hospital, the indignation of the citizens and the doctors will be a symbol, a grand finale of the outgoing government’s epidemic policy.
A beautiful norm
A great day happened last week. A great day for a black female student at the Medical school of the University of Novi Sad. A great white doctor didn’t kneel on her neck. She didn’t even kick her.
Billiard balls: Symmetries are puzzling, asymmetries are hard to come by
Having fun during lockdown: Rereading Hicks’s book on causality, I was led to rereading Hume, then Kant, and finally, Leibniz (and a bit of Hegel).
2022
A boycott is the last polite, peaceful means to put pressure on the current regime. Once the boycott is over, any subsequent action against the illegitimate regime will be less and less polite.
No choice
Those who celebrate entering the National assembly on Sunday will have to do so with full awareness that it happened only because the ruling party was afraid of its own looming reflection in the mirror.
Herd democracy
Debates on Europe – Medicine is struggling to understand all the mysteries of the coronavirus, but coronavirus has fully unveiled the mysteries and mechanisms of many political regimes.
Covid-19 and the flaws of institutional care in Serbia
At the peak of the pandemic, the Serbian government published data that 574 people living in residential care institutions had been infected.
Antifascism in Sarajevo
The authors of the idea to move the Bleiburg mass led by archbishop Vinko Puljic to the Sacred heart cathedral in Sarajevo, must have realized the political earthquake this would cause…
Talk of the town
The news quickly spread through the media that the Constitutional court rejected the initiatives to assess the constitutionality and legality of the Decision on declaring a state of emergency.
Who doesn’t love their country?
How many respirators did we have? How many do we have now? How many did we buy during the epidemic? How many were delivered? How much public money was spent on it?
Just one point below the line
The very fact that the government analyzed the content of a report related to the situation in Serbia is a sign of progress compared to the usual outright ignoring that such reports are usually met with.
The past according to social media
DwP – It turns out that more information, more fragments, doesn’t mean that we understand the past better. A paralyzing overabundance of information has become an obstacle.
