Stabilocracy and political crisis
One of the main features of Vucic’s governing technology is snap parliamentary elections. Usually, in a multi-party system, this kind of election serves to return the mandate to the citizens…
October 1917: How it all went wrong
The Russian Revolution heralded a fertile period for economic thinking in the 1920s, but this was decisively killed off by Stalin. The effects of the destruction he wrought have left a long shadow.
History – the continuation of war by other means
From the conference Memory laws: The solution to controversial issues of the past is in changing the education system…
Bending knee to Sultan
Erdoğan’s festive welcome pointed out all the features of the “poor man’s glory”, which mostly shows the things that don’t exist. In this case, glamor, honesty and grandiose friendship.
Monkeys
National Council decided to appoint a “professor from Italy” as “a member of the expert committee to analyze the disputed doctoral dissertation of the mayor of Belgrade, Sinisa Mali”.
Waiting for the election
The atmosphere of social conflict on the brink of an armed clash is intolerable for most citizens and they are willing to sacrifice a lot to avoid it. This is the secret of Vucic’s success among Serbian voters.
Catalonia and the issue of secession
Yugoslavia proved unable to deal with secessions without disintegrating. That is also the worry of the Spanish government – that the secession of Catalonia will lead to the dissolution of Spain.
Ready for the Declaration!
Vucic has been successfully strengthening the myth on the innocent nineties. This U-turn has abolished war criminals, promoters, profiteers, but also authors and promoters of the Memorandum.
A terrible past and a bright future
A comment on the interview of Aleksandar Vucic on Happy TV: He has everything on his side – international support, regional projects aiming towards a bright common future…
Why poetry?
When my mother was very old and in a nursing home, she surprised me one day towards the end of her life by asking me if I still wrote poetry. When I blurted out that I still do, she stared at me…
Football selector as head of state
Aleksandar Vucic offered to one refugee boy from Afghanistan and his family a chance for a decent life in Serbia – and then turned that offer into its very opposite…
Melancholic, unequal and devoid of common sense
The first form of violence is war-related. Serbia participated in wars of horrific proportions. A number of Serbian men were in the paramilitary forces…
Murder in controlled conditions
We spoke about violence against women with Natasa Jovic, assistant secretary general to the Ombudsman and Tanja Ignjatovic from the Autonomous women’s center.
The sovereign
Aleksandar Vucic became the new president of Serbia, but also, in a sense, the theorist of his own political system. The cover of the last issue of Nedeljnik shows A. Vucic playing chess with himself…
Ana in cotton candy, or the tragedy of a civil servant
Ana Brnabic is used to annul homophobia in Serbia, because – come on, gays – if our prime minister is gay, how can you have it bad!?
Electoral autocracy
A person who is a minority according to practically all features of political significance, Ana Brnabic, is going to be Prime Minister. How will she rule? She won’t. President Vucic will.
Mirëdita, bad days
They tried to enter the room where the fourth “Mirëdita, good day” festival, which presents the cultural scene of Kosovo, was planned to happen. The police managed to prevent them…
Phantom of Bujanovac
Ivica Dacic said that the only reason Jonuz Musliu won’t be “arrested” is the fact that Aleksandar Vucic “makes sure that his actions don’t cause additional damage or turn Musliu into a victim”.
Excess of politics, lack of evidence
A judiciary which hasn’t brought charges for the crimes against Kosovo Albanians for three years is seeking the extradition of a Kosovo Albanian and meddles with the Special Court for Kosovo.
The reach and paradoxes of the Protest against the dictatorship
The student protests against the authoritative government have cast a long shadow over the legitimacy of Aleksandar Vucic’s election.
So that children don’t die
From the archive: I wonder did there exist, on the fourth of June 1968 in Belgrade, a single person who did not feel shaken to her very core, or thrown out of his basic everyday equilibrium?
The specter of “soros” haunts Budapest and Belgrade
There is little chance that domestic and foreign support will prevent Orban’s government from banning the work of CEU in Hungary.
Lex Croatia
The difference between a multimillionaire in France or Sweden and Ivica Todoric in Croatia is the fact that they have to obey their laws, while in Croatia the laws have to obey Ivica Todoric.
Election dialectics
Opposition is not only a competition to the regime, but also a guarantee of its legitimacy. Elections not controlled by the opposition are no longer a legitimate expression of the citizens’ will.
Keep it weak
This very moment, the opposition should start preparing for the Belgrade elections. And the first item in these preparations should be the analysis of the presidential election which has just ended.
Tax inspectors in the presidential campaign
Minister of finance probably doesn’t know that tax inspectors have been calling business owners all over Serbia asking them to vote for candidate listed under number 6.
A Marxian fable
At one time, I found it useful to think in terms of Marx’s dictum: from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs. Start with Plato, not altogether literally…
Three weeks before the elections
Our candidate for the Eurosong scheduled for the first week of May has more publicity than the presidential candidates taking part in the elections scheduled for April 2nd.
Serbia on spring break
The prime minister promised to engage in presidential campaign only in his free time (although, he also promised not to run) and then secured this free time by dismissing the government.
Candidate’s thirty-seconds quote
“I’m not campaigning. We didn’t spend a single dinar, we didn’t hold a single rally. I didn’t go anywhere to campaign in any way. Is this true? It is. So, why are you talking about campaigning?”
Ne da(vi)mo Beograd protest speech
We’re not only asking for the resignations of the mayor and the minister of police. We are asking for judiciary truth, legal truth, and not political lies. Our demand is neither exaggerated nor illegitimate…
Always on the women’s side
Vucic, the knight in shining armor, will defend Marija Mali as the mother whose children were taken away, but won’t mention her as a woman who is the victim of domestic violence.
