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Issue No. 165 Friday, July 11 - Thursday, July 24, 2014 ORDER DELIVERY TO Getting Kolarac Belgrade YOUR DOOR +381 11 4030 303 around celebrates dining options [email protected] - - - - - - - ISSN 1820-8339 1 the city art gallery’s are rich BELGRADE INSIGHT IS PUBLISHED BY 0 1 50th birthday and plentiful Page 5 Page 10 Page 11 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 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 - - - - - - - - - - US flights - Savage cuts leave not NEWS ready for takeoff NEWS poor on the brink Despite official “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: Belgrade mayor talk of direct US 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. - - - - says strict savings flights by 2015, - experts say Air herald the Serbia has a way page 10 dawn of a new to go before it can era of financial obtain a license to fly to America, hile the football world watch es events unfold at the Euro responsibility - 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 pean Championships 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. W and some doubt June 13, 2008 Issue No. 1 / Friday, - - - - but those on the - receiving end are whether such flights will ever be page 5 far from happy. profitable. Ivana NIKOLIĆ Katarina MARKOVIĆ henever new conomists are warning that pro over Serbia’s uncertainty longed “This year has been lost, from the authorities fter two decades, Serbia 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 take power is back on the list of coun- E - - - - in the city, tries that the US Federal - they start Aviation Administration “Wcutting in order to save,” says Jovan, a says can safely organise 70-year old pensioner as he leans on flights to US cities. AFriday • June 13 2008 his stick. “The aid that the city was giv- Following the FAA decision, Serbian ing to me, €40 as an additional pension, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić said I was giving to my grandsons. I still give that Air Serbia, which is jointly owned them money, but far less,” he adds. by the government and Etihad, from the THIS ISSUE OF Jovan is just one out of many poor United Arab Emirates, planned to open Belgrade Insight IS SUPPORTED BY: IS SUPPORTED retirees who has been left without fi- a route to Chicago in the second half of 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 nancial assistance from the city as a 2015. 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 consequence of newly adopted savings Although experts have greeted the measures. FAA approval of Serbia’s right to organ- ise flights to the US, they warn that a long Continued on page 3 Cuts have left pensioners without financial aid from the city. Photo by Branko Karapandža procedure and a series of conditions lies ahead for both Serbia and Air Serbia be- fore flights can take off. They believe that it is unrealistic to Zemun, a city in a city expect Air Serbia to open flights to the US as soon as next year, and some doubt It may be only a stone’s throw from the centre park. “And, because these people were Its strategic location near the conflu- whether such flights can be profitable. of different confessions, two different ence of the Sava and the Danube rivers The FAA put Serbia on the list of coun- of Belgrade, but this one time Austro-Hungarian churches were built here,” he added. made it an object of repeated wars be- tries in so-called category 1, meaning that town moves to a very different beat. Two centuries later, there is just one tween the two empires. it meets the necessary security condi- sign of the park’s curious role in history “But that is also why Zemun was at- tions to fly to the US, on June 27th. – a part of the wall that once surround- tractive to people. As a commercial bor- Serbia officially lost its place on catego- Ivana NIKOLIĆ “Back in the late 18th and early 19th ed the quarantine area. Nowadays, two der town, its inhabitants enjoyed vari- ry 1 in 2002, but flights between US and centuries, this park was a quarantine schools and a faculty building lie here, ous privileges,” Parun recalled.

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