Issue No. 211 Friday, July 22 - Thursday, September 08, 2016 ORDER DELIVERY TO Belgrade ‘failing to Political Must-see YOUR DOOR +381 11 4030 303 develop satirists eye music [email protected] - - - - - - - ISSN 1820-8339 1 mid-market Belgrade local festivals BELGRADE INSIGHT IS PUBLISHED BY 0 1 tourism’ elections in August Page 5 Page 9 Page 13 9 7 7 1 8 2 0 8 3 3 0 0 0 Even when the Democrats longas continue to likely is This also are negotiations Drawn-out Surely the situation is urgent Many of us who have experi We feel in-the-know because bia has shown us that (a.) no single no (a.) that us shown has bia party or coalition will ever gain the governa form to required majority negotiations political (b.) and ment, will never be quickly concluded. achieved their surprising result at last month’s general election, quickly itbecame clear that the re sult was actually more-or-less the result election other every as same in Serbia, i.e. inconclusive. as Serbia’s politicians form new political parties every time disagree with they their current party reg 342 currently are (there leader political parties in Serbia). istered the norm. One Ambassador Belgrade-based recently told me he was also alarmed by the distinct lack of urgency among politicians. Serbian “The country is standstill at and a I don’t understand their logic. If they are so eager to progress towards the EU and en theycome how investors, courage go home at 5pm sharp and don’t work weekends?” overtime. little a warrant to enough Experts EDITOR’S WORD Predictability Political By Mark R. Pullen elections Serbian numerous enced rate ourselves as pundits when it comes to predicting election re sults and post-election moves. our experience of elections in Ser - - - - - - - - - - Serbia turns blind eye doubt dual - to rare bird slaughter educationNEWS willNEWS work Once a common in Serbia sight, turtle doves “The situation in the party seems “Dacic will eventually side with Nikolic agreed: “The question is Fearing they might not cross the Pensioners leader, Jovan Krkoba The reported price is the post of In addition, the Socialists are bar Tadic has denied talk of horse- At the same time, Dacic seems re reach an agreement “If we don’t Source: Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) Balkan Insight (www.balkaninsight.com) Source: party over which way to turn. extremely complicated, as we try to convince the few remaining lag gards that we need to move out of one Socialist shadow,” Milosevic’s Party official complained. in a bid to guide his party into Tadic the European mainstream, but much of the membership and many offi cials may oppose that move.” will the party split or ‘old- back down,” he noted. timers’ threshold to enter parlia 5-per-cent ment, the Socialists teamed up with Association of Pensioners and the the led by business United Serbia Party, man Dragan Markovic “Palma”. bic, Palma and Dacic are all pushing for a deal with the Democrats. of deputy PM, with a brief in charge security for the Socialist leader. gaining for other ministries, includ ing capital investments, Kosovo and education, Belgrade media reported. trading with the Socialists, maintain ing that ministries would go only to those committed to working for the “strategic goal”. government’s negotiations with luctant to call off the nationalists. with the DSS and Radicals, par ty leadership will decide on future steps”, Dacic announced, following par new country’s of session first the liament on Wednesday. - - - - and quails are in- A number of - creasingly rare in experts say hopes page 10 Europe - thanks that German- partly to illegal style vocational poaching which training will bring hile the football world watch es events unfold at the Euro However, a strong current also However, Mihajlo Markovic, a founder of Markovic, a prominent supporter Some younger Socialist officials Neighbourhood Matters faces extinction unless it changes. flows in the opposite direction, led by party veterans enraged the Tadic. prospect of a deal with recently warned of a crisis the party, if Dacic opts for the pro-European “nat bloc, abandoning the Socialists’ ural” ideological partners. of Milosevic during the 1990s, is seen as representative of the “old- timers” in the party who want to stay policies, true to the former regime’s even though these almost ruined the Socialists for good. have voiced frustration over the con tinuing impasse within their own Football Rebellion Football is also rampant in Austria and pean Championships in Switzerland, Bosnia is experiencing led by fans, play a soccer rebellion, enraged ers and former stars who are by what they see as corrupt leaders football association of the country’s leaders. down youth W Issue No. 1 / Friday, June 13, 2008 Issue No. 1 / Friday, - - - - Serbia. unemployment - are misplaced. Dragan GMIZIĆ page 5 s the official start of the Saša DRAGOJLO quail hunting season on August 1st looms, the rime Minister-designate, atmosphere at the Bird Aleksandar Vučić, has conomists are warning that pro over Serbia’s uncertainty longed “This year has been lost, from the Protection and Study long been a champion After eight years of stagnation, the pro-European and nation With Nikolic believes the Socialists, led “The group of younger Socialists Business Insight Costs Mounting future could scare off investors, lead investors, lead future could scare off to higher inflation and jeopardise prosperity for years to come. says standpoint of economic policy,” Econom the of Stamenkovic Stojan ics Institute in Belgrade. to Serbia’s late president, Slobodan to Serbia’s Milosevic, and reformists who want the party to become a modern Euro pean social democrat organisation. the Socialists returned to centre stage after winning 20 of the 250 seats in elections. parliament in the May 11 alist blocs almost evenly matched, the Socialists now have the final say on the fate of country. by Ivica Dacic, will come over to if only out of a pragmatic de Tadic, sire to ensure their political survival. gathered around Dacic seems to be adding said, Nikolic majority”, the in that these reformists believe the party ASociety of Serbia, DZPPS, is becoming of installing a German- E - - - - increasingly busy. style “dual education” - While some members are getting in system in Serbian voca- touch with ornithologists all over Ser- Ptional secondary schools, which he is bia, others are adding details to maps convinced could reduce the high rate Friday • June 13 2008 of local hunting grounds. The more de- of unemployment of the young. tails they have, the more prepared they Around 45 per cent of young people will be for the coming season, DZPPS are unemployed in Serbia, according members say. to data from the National Employment THIS ISSUE OF Service for 2015. Belgrade Insight IS SUPPORTED BY: IS SUPPORTED Continued on page 2 Ecologists say hunting is a major reason why the populations of some bird species are tumbling. Photo: DZPPS “Dual education is the most signifi- on a new gov ense negotiations ernment have divided the ranks “It looks as if the Socialists will Simultaneous negotiations held This divides “old-timers” loyal Socialist leader Ivica Dacic remains the Serbian kingmaker Socialist leader Ivica Dacic remains Lure of Tadic Alliance Splits Socialists Tadic Lure of government, old pro-EU While younger Socialists support joining a new, over the prospect. revolt Milosevic loyalists threaten in Belgrade By Rade Maroevic cant matter that the Serbian govern- which holds of the Socialist Party, the balance of power between the blocs and has yet to announce main which side they will support. move towards a government led by the Democrats,” political analyst Mi lan Nikolic, of the independent Cen tre of Policy Studies, said. “But such a move might provoke deeper divi sions and even split the party.” with the pro-European and national ist blocs have drawn attention to a deep rift inside the Socialists. T ment needs to address if it wants to ensure a future to young people,“ Vučić told the 2nd International Congress on ISIS recruiters prey on Vocational and Professional Education and Training, in Winterthur, Switzer- land, on June 25th. Bosnia’s forgotten youth He has since emphasized dual edu- cation as important for the economy happened...I grew a beard, went to The average age of those who went to because it creates “an entrepreneurial With no systems in place to shield the the Fahd Mosque. A lot of brothers the battlefields is about 27, and about spirit in teenagers”. young from Islamic radicalization, it is up were there. I met them and then you 80 minors are among them. “We need a brave Minister of Educa- joined some of their activities. I went to tion to make difficult and courageous to parents and NGOs to win them back. Briješće, to the džemat [para-mosque] LACK OF PROSPECTS decisions,” Vučić said on July 13th. of theirs for lectures. Most of them from LEADS TO ISIS The dual system of education, as es- Džana BRKANIĆ I could no longer live on one or two dol- there went to the Islamic State,” he rec- tablished in Germany, represents the Denis DŽIDIĆ lars from my parents. There I met a girl ollected. Analyst Osman Softić says that many idea of learning at work or on the job. who took me into the world of Islam.” He stayed in the world of radical Is- young people in Bosnia feel hopeless, In addition to acquiring knowledge knew little about faith,” He told BIRN how, following the lead lam for about four years, after which he which is why some depart for the Is- of theory in schools, pupils gain practi- starts a 31-year-old Sara- of the girl, he got married “before the started focusing on college and he got lamic State.